Details authors time with the Worora of the Kimberley, together with over 100 new photographs. An importatnt contribution to understanding the nature of Aboriginal culture as it was at the time of European colonisation, giving an accurate and details account of everyday life and food gathering, social organisation and kinship systems, belief in child-spirits and how people are named, of food and other taboos, systems of gifts and exchange, language, warfare, murder, punishment, medicine, death and funeral practices, of first contact with white people.