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During a “Djapi” initiation ceremony for two boys in Numbulwar, an Aboriginal community on the western Gulf of Carpentaria, people are performing a ritual where they imitate the sound and movements of the “brolga” a large water bird.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Aug 04, 1997
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