00:06 A large group of Indigenous Australian children walk along the road near the sea.

00:09 Seven Australian Aboriginal young girls stand in a group in brown uniform dresses facing the camera. One wears an orange cardigan and blue skirt.

00:12 Another group of younger girls stand together facing the camera.

00:15 Five young boys wearing the same Khaki uniform, similar to the girls, face the camera. Close up of two of the young boys smiling and giggling.

00:19 Two Australian Aboriginal women sit on the ground weaving baskets.

00:24 Close up of one of the women weaving the reeds.

00:29 The finished woven baskets and purses are arranged together.

00:32 Two men carve a boat from wood by hand.

00:36 A white man also wearing Khaki clothes planes the wood on an oar.

00:41 Two Australian Aboriginal men help each other prepare their ceremonial body decoration comprising of white clumps of feather (?) along their body and tall headdresses.

00:49 The two men stand side-by-side showing the camera their finished look.

00:52 Another two men sit with ceremonial body paint, very different from the previous two men.

00:55 A group of four Australian Aboriginal men in the body paint similar to the previous men perform a traditional dance for the camera.

01:01 A close up of a young boy with a possum on his head.

01:04 Brown Men and Red Sand. Photography C.P.Mountford

01:06 A newspaper clipping with the headline; Investigation into native art and custom. Mr. C.P.Mountford to Lead Expedition. The first few lines describing the expedition reads; The Board for Anthropological Research at the Adelaide University has selected Mr. C.P.Mountford to lead a small expedition into north-western South Australia and western Central Australia.

01:14 Shot of green mountain range and valley.

01:24 Red-rock mountain with tall yellow grass at the base. Two Australia Aboriginal man walk by carrying spear and shield.

01:32 The two men proceed up a mountain, past a low-lit fire.

01:36 -while the leader is responsible for bringing in the scared ceremonial stones.

01:47 Three purple-coloured stone with intricately carved concentric circles on the surface of the stones.

02:24 Another sacred ceremonial stone but this time with more elaborate carving on its surface. A large concentric circle in the middles with winding linked and dashes weaving around the circle are visible.

02:35 Whilst all this is going on, Wilialba makes a bark dish for the women.

02:41 An Australia Aboriginal man, Wilialba, peels the bark from a tree using his spear.

02:55 Close up of his spear digging into the surface bark of the tree. He is making a circle to cut out.

03:33 Wilialba starts hitting the area of the tree with a stone before the circle of bark falls away from the tree.

03:39 Who set out to dig tasty wood grubs.

03:49 A group of indigenous women and children walk away from the camera in a line to go look for wood grubs.

03:50 Other women collect wild yams for the evening meal.

03:56 A group of women sit on the ground prodding at the earth with large sticks, digging for yams.

04:17: Close up of one of the bark plates beside of the women who has collected some roots and small yams on it.

04:19 Close up of the stick digging in the ground for yams.

05:05 Young children assist with digging for yams. The young child finds somethings, quickly chews on it before looking at the camera and laughing.

05:19 The group of children and a woman sit around fire ashes burying the yams in the ashes ready for the evening meal. One lady continuously stokes the fire with a long piece of bark to ensure everything cooks properly. A group of young children sit next to them watching.

05:59 Five little boys got some yams.

06:06 Five young boys sitting around the ashes from before all stand up and run away.

6:08 One little boy got none.

06:11 One young boy remains seated looking upset.

06:12 Whilst the women work, the men rest neat a water hole.

06:17 A man sits on the river bank looking at the view with his shield and spear beside him. A quick shot of three men lying down resting follows.

06:31 Nuna dreams that he sees his favorite tobacco growing on the hillside.

6:37 Close up of a tobacco plant.

06:51 He wakes up and prepares some for chewing.

06:57 The three men resting from before wake up and sit chatting.

07:04 This is made palatable for chewing by mixing with wood ash

07:09 The tobacco is set alight near a pile of ash.

07:14 Close up of the ball of tobacco being flattened into the ash with a stone.

07:47 No better Austratian tobacco.

07:54 The men start chewing the tobacco.

07:57 Wilialba has a meal of wild figs.

08:02 Close up of small, yellow, wild figs being picked and eaten.

08:16 -and Nuna, a drink from the Glen of Palms.

08:23 Nuna approached a large lake, kneels down and start drinking from it.

08:31 Nectar, fit for the gods.

08:37 Nuna finishes drinking and looks towards the camera before standing up and walking away.

08:42 Wilialba and Nuna are late and cold, so they light a fire.

08:46 The two men share the task of trying to light a fire by rubbing wooden log against another one of the ground.

08:58 The heated wood-dust ignites.

09:02 Close up of slight flames and smoke beginning at the base of the wood.

09:10 This placed on a pad of dry grass, soon starts a fire.

09:26 Dry grass is placed on the wood while being blown at by one of the men to start the fire.

09:34 The fire has started and is being attended to by one of the men.

09:42 -from which, each takes a firestick to keep himself warm.

09:46 Carrying their spears and shields in one hand, the men collect a stick from the fire, ignited at one end, before walking away.

09:48 They meet their families and return to camp.

09:55 Carrying their ‘firesticks’, a family with two young children walk by.

10:06 As the day closes, the people sit round their camp fires as they have done for countless generations.

10:13 At night time, only the fire and smoke is visible.

10:18 Surrounded by their tribal mountains, rich in myth and story, and rosy with the fading lights of the sunset.’

10:33 Night time, nothing visible other than what appears to be a white cave drawing (?).

10:40 Quick shots of the sunset and nearby rock mountains.

10:51 Screen turns black.

10:57 End of film.

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD