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Race against time to preserve Lingka Dreaming carvings on boab trees in Tanami Desert

Carvings on boab trees in northern Australia's Tanami Desert support stories told by elders about how their land came to be, according to a team of Indigenous people and archaeologists.

The carvings on 12 boabs are mainly of snakes — some coiled, some wrapped around the trees — and relate to an important Indigenous Dreaming track in the area, known as the King Brown Snake or Lingka Dreaming

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