FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Pan pool in usually dry creek bed. Aboriginal family camped. Women and children go off to collect food, one carries wooden bowls on head, another has fire stick, another carries small child on her back. VS Gathering seed from grass into wooden dish. CU faces, one with stick through nose. CU woman and toddler with flies on their faces. (May 1965)

Aboriginal women and children at campsite after gathering grass seed for food. Woman threshing grass seed heads in wooden dish with her hands. CU shaking seeds and husks in wind to separate them, also shaking in smaller dish. Small boy brings grind stone to his mother to grind grass seed to flour. One small boy eating flour as mother grinds it, another breast feeds as she works. (May 1965)

Two aboriginal women and children walking back to camp with food and firewood they have gathered. Man, Djagamara (Manjindjadara linguistic group), sits with three wives and children. Woman cleans out dish made from bark. Dishes full of different foods including lizards and grasses. One woman shakes grass to separate seeds from husk. Small boy eating lizard, CU face as he gnaws, runny nose and flies. CU grass husks blown from seed in wind. CU seeds separate in dishes. (May 1965)

Small aboriginal boy with head ache having head bound with hair string belt. CU small boy asleep in sand next to mother as she works grinding grass seeds into flour. CU grinding. Man, Djagamara, touching his hair bound up with hair sting belt. Woman mixing water from can with flour, lays sticky dough into hot ashes of fire. CU lizard on her belt covered with flies. Woman throws ashes over dough, family sit to wait for it to cook. (May 1965)

CU hollows in sand where aboriginal family sleep. CU woman's burnt knee covered with mud. CU small boy breast feeding, many flies. Woman removed grass seed cake baked in fire, passes it to husband, Djagamara. CU face smiling as he removes charcoal from seed cake, breaks it open. VS children eating. (May 1965)