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dvR_051002_A -- Plant Medicine - Native Asparagus (Protasparagus racemosus)
Title:
dvR_051002_A -- Plant Medicine - Native Asparagus (Protasparagus racemosus)
ID:
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-C442-2
Online:
Yes
Archive:
Contributor:
Margaret (consultant)
Bruce (compiler)
Joy (consultant)
Publisher:
The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Description:
The informant demonstrates and describes how to obtain and process the roots of the native asparagus (Protasparagus racemosus) for a medicine which is used for the treatment of scabies, skin sores and infected cuts. The procedure is as follows: The tuber-like roots of the native asparagus (Protasparagus racemosus) are dug up, and the earth is cleaned off he roots. Then they are pounded, placed in a container of clean water and brought to the boil. The container with the liquid is removed from the fire and left overnight. The sore skin is washed with the cool iquid several times a day.
Content language:
English
Iwaidja
Subject language:
English
Iwaidja
Language family:
Indo-European
Germanic
Australian
DCMI type:
Sound
MovingImage
Text
Other coverage:
Australia
At Ilki.
Other format:
audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
text/x-eaf+xml
Other language:
English
Iwaidja
Other subject:
English
Iwaidja
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Archive: The Language Archive
Online: Yes
Subject language: English
Subject language: Iwaidja
Language family: Australian
Language family: Germanic
Language family: Indo-European
Geographic region: Europe
Geographic region: Pacific
DCMI type: MovingImage
DCMI type: Sound
DCMI type: Text
Content language: English
Content language: Iwaidja
Contributor: Bruce
Contributor: Joy
Contributor: Margaret
Publisher: The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Title: dvR_051002_A -- Plant Medicine - Native Asparagus (Protasparagus racemosus)
Other coverage: At Ilki.
Other coverage: Australia
Other format: audio/x-wav
Other format: text/x-eaf+xml
Other format: video/x-mpeg2
Other language: English
Other language: Iwaidja
Other subject: English
Other subject: Iwaidja