Coming Together: a Possum Skin Cloak, Cultural Exchanges and Caring for Country

Following up on our fieldwork in Ngukurr in May/June 2023, the Living Archive team have put together a film about the trip (the film was launched recently at a conference at the University of Melbourne. See previous blog post). It was made entirely on mobile phones, with additional music supplied by the Yugal Band from Ngukurr. The film tells the story of the cloaks’ trip to Ngukurr, the stories that evolved during the marking of designs on the cloak, and the cultural exchanges and relationships that were established during the trip.  The cloak provides a creative outcome that reveals the importance of listening to and learning from Indigenous knowledge holders to care for Country, and acknowledges that these ways of knowing are essential in supporting ecological sustainability into the future.

You can view the film here:

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