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Author Le Brun Holmes, Sandra

Title Faces in the sun : outback journeys / Sandra Le Brun Holmes
Published Ringwood, Vic. : Viking, 1999

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Description 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary 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 documnetary film maker with her husband Cecil Holmes
Analysis Aboriginal children
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal land rights
Aborigines
Autobiography
Federal issue
Sandra Holmes
State issue
Notes Aboriginal content
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Holmes, Sandra Le Brun.
Holmes, Sandra.
Le Brun Holmes, Sandra
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Cinematographers -- Australia -- Biography.
Ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography.
Women anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 00340964
ISBN 0670877387