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Wärrkarr, 2023
$4,200.00
Wärrkarr is an Yirritja inedible white lily that grows in the open bush land. When it blooms it tells us that it is Maranydjalk (stingray) is ready to be hunted. The liver of the stingray is ripe.
Crinum angustifolium “onion lily” or “white sand lily” An annual herb, which has a perennial onion-like tuber. When the white flowers are produced this signals that stingrays are fat and ready to be hunted. A translation is available in the Rirratjiŋu Ethnobotany Other: lily–inedible onion-like bulb White Sand Lily,Compare warrkarr with: wuḻuymuŋ D White Forest Lily, Crinum asiaticum, C. uniflorum
Language information: Language: Y Part of speech: n “Warrkar tuber buthu” Other: Informants: JR,SD(23,25),WdV(156) Source: Zorc_1 Last updated by: For more information search for these words: mulmu-baralapuy warrkarr is a sign, or symbol, of: maranydjalk (Yirritja shark & stingray season) FM This is not a food plant, but a calendar plant (see above). It may also be used as a medicine for tjetji (boils and sores)
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