Protection from the Weather

The Burarra people traditionally make shelters from the bark of stringybark trees or paperbark trees.

Some of these traditional shelters have two levels. A small fire is sometimes lit underneath so the smoke wafts through the second level, keeping the mosquitoes away.

A bark shelter provides protection from the rain and the wind and also shade from the hot Sun.

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