Mirrwat\a: (asked if Yol\u play yidaki on each other's bodies to heal them) B^y\u (nothing).

Buwathay: B^y\u, our healing is... When someone really sick, nearly to die, he or she will ask one of us to come closer and play clapsticks and didjeridu. Singing. You know, real song. Traditional song. To put that song and didjeridu in his mind. Spirit. Make the spirit go away to where his land. Where that spirit will go back, you know? To that own land.

(Mirrwat\a, off camera: when they passed away.)

Buwathay: That's the healing part for us, you know?

Buwathay Munyarryun
Wangurri clan leader

with his brother Mirrwat\a Munyarryun
Wangurri clan yidaki player

 

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