Desert Tracks
Clip 2: Women’s business
2 min 48 sec
Taken from the short film Desert Tracks (1997)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
Curator’s clip description
Women performing chores. The clip shows the different social responsibilities of different members of the community.
Curator’s notes
The openness with which the Pitjantjatjara share cultural information is non confrontational, and anyone unfamiliar with Indigenous culture would not feel threatened by their ignorance on the subject. It seems the Pitjantjatjara people’s intention is that visitors at least begin to feel a connectedness with land that perhaps they did not feel before.
Romaine Moreton, curator
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