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Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed (1998)

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clip Promise husband

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Clip description

In a night-time ceremony around a fire, a small girl is told she is promised to a husband. In the present day, the girl now a young woman soon to be married, Della (Urshula Yovich) packs her gear and climbs into a truck and reverses a few hundred metres to her new homestead.

Curator’s notes

A wonderful comedic introduction to the modern day version of the ancient ritual of promise marriage within Indigenous communities.