J. R. B. Love lived and worked with northern Kimberley Aborigines during1914-1915 and
1927-1940, gaining their friendship and learning their language and customs. This book
contains his 1936 text and previously unpublished photographs combined with other
photographs and information from a number of sources. Love's book describes
traditional Kimberley Aboriginal everyday life, including social organisation, kinship
systems, belief in child-spirits, rituals, naming people, hunting and food gathering, firemaking, housing, language, warfare, murder, punishment, medicine, ageing, death and
funeral practices, infanticide, polygamy, domestic violence, wife-lending, euthanasia,
and cannibalism.
