Talk:Smoking ceremony

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In the 'Ceremonial Practice' section the same source is cited four times. Are there other sources which corroborate this information? Kat7502 (talk) 23:35, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Do we have any early accounts of this?[edit]

Certainly not mentioned by Buckley, Morril or Petrie. The latter goes into fine detail about ceremonies by Brisbane tribes.

I suspect this only happened in a small number of places, if at all. Modern accounts are dubious at best. I seems like a modern invention. Tuntable (talk) 23:07, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Most sources I can find connect it to the 1976 Perth arts festival. Some say that it's thousands of years old, but those accounts are typically extremely vague, never mentioning which peoples do/did it, which plants they used, or any written records by early settlers or anthropologists. A lot of this article takes such claims uncritically. A newspaper from 1906 is cited, but the smoking ceremony it mentions (among Larrekiya and Wogait) is to initiate a girl to womanhood Sheila1988 (talk) 21:28, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]