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Young Yanyuwa “daru” or initiates are slowly walked by a group of men to a place where they will be “smoked”, a few days after their circumcision in Borroloola, near the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory. The initiates have to stand in the smoke of a fire, made with green leaves. Their sisters are present, but are not allowed to look at them, so they cover themselves.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Dec 28, 1992
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