Mainly photographs of Arnhem land; short introduction includes brief mention of Caledon Bay massacre & Woodah Island murders, visits by Dutch explorers & Macassan trepangers; notes on Aboriginal life & culture, religious beliefs, relationship of rock art; plates include rock painting (Wilton River), Noarlangie Rock, excavations at Ingaladdi & rock paintings, cooking of flying foxes, modern Aboriginal life, string figure, water transport (including dugout canoe), Delamere rock paintings, fish spear, Delamere site (brief version of Wardaman Lightning Brothers myth), paintings at Noarlangie (X ray style), rock paintings of Europeans at Innesvale Station.