ABORIGINAL STUDIES Agriculture Biography

Autobiography of film maker and anthropologist, Sandra Le Brun Holmes, who spent her early childhod on a sheep station in the far northwest of New South Wales playing with the Aboriginal children on the station ; as a young woman she travelled alone through the desert areas of Western Australia, recording Aboriginal songs and religious beliefs from various clans. Later she became a field worker for the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and a documentary film maker with her husband Cecil Holmes.

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