An educational video about dog care on remote Aboriginal communities, giving information on ticks, worms, germ theory and dog safety. . This episode is about the problems that happen when camp dogs breed with dingos.
An educational video about dog care on remote Aboriginal communities, giving information on ticks, worms, germ theory and dog safety. This episode focuses on "worms'.
An educational video about dog care on remote Aboriginal communities, giving information on ticks, worms, germ theory and dog safety. This episode focuses on the need to de-sex your dog.
An educational video about dog care on remote Aboriginal communities, giving information on ticks, worms, germ theory and dog safety. This episode looks at how to prevent skin sores.
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.
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.
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.
This film is a snapshot of an inter-generational project called Arrwekeleny Lyeteny (old ways and new ways): learning and teaching about Bush Medicine. The project integrates language work, visual arts, film making and bush medicine research in a remote educational setting. The project was delivered through Batchelor Institute in partnership with community elders, and undertaken by students of all ages.
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.
Photographic slideshow with voice-over about ilpengk bush medicine. It includes collection, processing, mixing with fat, boiling, straining and decanting. Finally, the medicine is applied.
ICTV and IRCA are supported by the Australian Government through the Indigenous Broadcasting Program of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Office for the Arts.
