Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Stephen Loring -- Beginnings -- Ethnographic collecting -- Preparing for Arnhem Land -- Exploring the great unknown -- Groote Eylandt -- Exploring the great unknown -- Yirrkala -- Exploring the great unknown -- Oenpelli -- Collecting Arnhem Land -- When we have put to sea -- Reflections on an ethnographic collection -- A series most promising -- The ongoing impact
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index