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A smoking ceremony is an Indigenous traditional cleansing and purification ritual using the leaves of the ironbark tree Photo: Nungalinya College

Collecting ironbark leaves

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A Smoking Ceremony is an Indigenous traditional cleansing and purification ritual using the leaves of the ironbark tree

Three Aboriginal women collecting leaves from an ironbark tree in preparation for Nungalinya College’s smoking ceremony.

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