Clip description
The old women sit in the sand, the younger women next to them. The old women draw the skin system – or the lores of marriage – in the sand. The younger women are being taught the right skin groups from which they can pick a husband.
Curator’s notes
The skin system of Indigenous culture is core to the whole, for through the skin system, bloodlines are kept and strengthened, and the responsibility to land and place are managed. The passing on of this knowledge is what makes any discussion about love, in the Indigenous cultural context, loaded with responsibility, rather than the frivolity represented by popular culture. This documentary is a poetic account of the serious fun of love.