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Angety Basketball-Akert		Added by BIITE
A story about a group of girls playing basketball. One girl gets injured and her friends take her to see an old woman who knows bush medicine. She gets better and they recommence their basketball game.
Genre: Bush Medicine
Language: Anmatyerr	Completed: 2009	Duration: 00:00:32

Irrer Alhem Awerrpek Mwerr-Iletyek		Added by BIITE
A man goes hunting for kangaroo, he shoots the kangaroo and then cooks it. He takes the blood from the kangaroo to be used as a bush medicine. Dogs gets the meat at the end.
Genre: Bush Medicine
Language: Anmatyerr	Completed: 2009	Duration: 00:00:39

Angety Kemarr Atherr-Kenh		Added by BIITE
A story about a group of ladies who go out hunting with two dogs. They hunt for porcupine, and one gathers a plant for bush medicine. The two dogs chase a goanna up a tree and then the ladies kill the goanna. They go to the dinner camp and cook the goanna, and have a cup of tea. They extract the fat from the goanna and eat some of the meat. One lady makes bush medicine from the goanna fat and the plant collected earlier. She then massages one of her companions who has a headache with the medicine.
Genre: Bush Medicine
Language: Anmatyerr	Completed: 2009	Duration: 00:01:37

Awely Anter		Added by BIITE
This film grew from language, art and filmmaking workshops throughout 2008. This is the story about a woman who goes out hunting and gets sick. Her mother is angry at the others in the party who did not take care of her daughter, so they go hunting for a lizard and ilpengk bush medicine. They are worried about her. They cook the lizard and they rub and medicine on her feet and stomach, and they sing a traditional song as they heal her.
Genre: Bush Medicine
Language: Anmatyerr	Completed: 2008	Duration: 00:03:35

lywemp-lyempek Arety-Alhek		Added by BIITE
A group of young girls go and dig up a plant called lywemp-lywemp. They mix it with water and put it in their hair to make it shiny and long.
Genre: Bush Medicine
Language: Anmatyerr	Completed: 2008	Duration: 00:04:36

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