| 1. | The Gumboot was designed, fabricated and installed by Brian Newell.
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| 2. | He handed a young boy named Drew a gumboot chiton.
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| 3. | Mbuli toured the Rishile Gumboot Dancers of Soweto throughout South Africa and Australia.
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| 4. | The gumboot can live for over 40 years.
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| 5. | A subgroup developed into the Rishile Poets and later the Rishile Gumboot Dancers of Soweto.
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| 6. | The aim of the festival is to break the world record for the longest gumboot throw.
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| 7. | Babinda and Tully annually compete for the Golden Gumboot, an award for Australia's wettest town.
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| 8. | In Disco, teams had to learn to perform the Gumboot dance with a troupe of African dancers.
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| 9. | Most of the shows where they do gumboot dancing, they do it for 10 minutes, five minutes.
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| 10. | The gumboot chiton's appearance has led some tidepoolers to fondly refer to it as the " wandering meatloaf ."
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