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smoking ceremony
noun
An ancient custom among Indigenous Australians that involves burning various native plants to produce smoke, performed at major events, such as births and deaths, or to welcome important visitors.
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In preparation for the "smoking ceremony", they stoke a smouldering fire of ti-tree and eucalyptus.
The vessel met up with bark canoes under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and a traditional smoking ceremony was carried out.
That afternoon a dozen of us from Wolf's Heaven were invited to a smoking ceremony out at Nathan Redbone's place.
Soon-to-be-speaker of the House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop attends the smoking ceremony earlier today at Parliament House.
Mifsud suggests a smoking ceremony take place to cleanse the bad spirits, and asks one of the senior players, Alister, to conduct the proceedings.
Photograph: LUKAS COCH/AAPIMAGE 10.34pm GMT Politicians have moved outside the front doors of Parliament for a smoking ceremony, complete with music and dancing.
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In smoking ceremonies the first offering of the pipe was always made to him.
It has been a long day, as we wended our way through the church service, welcome to country, smoking ceremonies, and speeches set down to open the 44th Parliament.
The town's chief, Cheulah, presented Timberlake with a string of beads and held another pipe-smoking ceremony.
In the dual moiety system of Arnhem Land, the Yirritja moiety members have particular responsibility for keeping tobacco and smoking knowledge and ceremonies.
The biggest disconnect for me personally, and one I'm sure my brother will have to overcome, is that we are used to the ceremony of smoking weed.
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