Does anyone know what Aboriginal language is spoken in the film? I am pretty sure that Palawa kani was still in the process of construction at the time of the film's making. I wouldn't be all that too surprised if Yolgnu was used as a stand-in language, which was Mawuyul Yanthalawuy's native language (she passed on very recently, Rest In Power). Some mentioned that David Gulpilil spoke Yolgnu in Walkabout on a previous post I made querying about Aboriginal attitudes towards the film. I wonder how prevalant this was in depictions of Aboriginal people in the New Wave of Australian cinema of the 70s and 80s. It seems no Palawa/Pakana people were consulted in the making of the film regarding historical and cultural matters depicted. From my limited knowledge of Palawa/Pakana culture, it seems that the depiction of men with ochre coloured hair and dreads was very accurate (as seen in 19th century paintings) but according to some sources I have read, possum skin cloaks weren't worn by Palawa/Pakana (unlike Koori on the mainland) and they went about fully naked. According to Nicholas Clements, there was a cultural fear against night spirits, which was depicted in the film. There seems some historical contention about Palawa/Pakana having lost the ability to make fire, which I cannot comment on (Yanthalawuy's character is depicted as a 'fire keeper'). With the film's supposed historical flaws in its depiction of Aboriginal culture, I have heard that the film has nonetheless been well-regarded for raising the public conscious about Australia's settler colonial past.