Because of its unusual narrative, focussing as much on political negotiations as on the ceremony itself, the film has become one of the most celebrated of the AIATSIS collection, and won the 1982 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Award for "the most outstanding film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology".
"Probably the best film I've ever seen about Aboriginal ritual and ceremony" - David MacDougall.
English narration, Anbarra (Burarra) language with English subtitles.