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members of both groups save one person. Another rule of etiquette
usually required the visiting group to leave a gift at the mine when
seeking ochre. Red ochre was sacred and it served many purposes which
included healing and magic.Pituri was widely traded because of its
stimulating properties like narcotic which is similar to tobacco.
Sometimes it was used as a poison to stun animals, when hunting for
example the Aboriginal people would put it in the water holes |
to stun the
animals that drank. Red ochre was sometimes traded for pituri. The
Adnyamathanha also traded artifacts such as grindstones and other
crafts and in return they would get boomerangs, spears, wooden object
and tomahawks.
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