Cool Drink and Culture
Clip 2: Witchety grubs are healthy
2 min 25 sec
Taken from the documentary Cool Drink and Culture (2006)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
Curator’s clip description
Witchety grubs being prepared for consumption. A group of young women are gathered at the waterhole and are preparing bush tucker to feed the young kids to make them strong.
Curator’s notes
The young women speak about getting bush tucker, water and bush medicine to make the children healthy. They talk about how the old people once showed them, and they now show the children. There is a definite message here that for the children to be healthy, more of the old ways must be kept in practice.
Romaine Moreton, curator
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