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The Tiwi people of Bathurst Island remember the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 with a corroborree. They apply their face paint and chant the events in Tiwi; the men dance, their arms outstretched, representing the planes; the women sit and depict looking through binoculars and shooting the planes down, the dancers falling on the ground like the planes crashing.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Thu Nov 05, 1987
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