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Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
When the rains come the aborigines retire into their bark huts, and while away the wet by painting on bark. The pictures (opposite) may look abstract, but aboriginal art is never "nonobjective" in the modern sense: to paint without painting something would strike an aborigine as uncivlized. His subject matter ranges from the constellations through crabs and kangaroos to "Night People," i.e. ghosts...
...multitude of purposes: some are simply decoration, others help educate the children and a tew are used in magic rites. Ants and the damp soon destroy them all. The works reproduced in UNESCO's book were new when collected on a 1948 expedition, are probably the most ancient bark paintings remaining in existence
...Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty has neither the verbal bark nor the military bite of its European counterpart, the North Atlantic Treaty. But it is the first formal alliance against Communist aggression to link Asian powers with one another and with the West...
...injured workman had just stepped from a ladder when his foot slipped on the icy bark. Witnesses said that he landed on his feet...