Sandra Le Brun Holmes spent her early childhood on a sheep station in the far northwest of New South Wales. Her playmates were her brother and three sisters, and the Aboriginal children living on the station. With her family, she left Boolcoomatta Station in a Model-T Ford van, trekking across Australia at the start of the Great Depression.
As a young woman, she travelled alone through the desert areas of Western Australia, recording Aboriginal songs and religious beliefs from various tribal groups. She went on to become a field worker for the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and a documentary filmmaker. With her husbond, Cecil Holmes, she made ethnographic films for the AIAS in Australia, and they also travelled and made films together in Papua New Guinea.
This is the story of a remarkable life and an extraordinary journey.
