A fascinating immersion within a highly ritualized Stone Age oral culture that, at least according to tradition, existed almost unchanged for thousands of years before the European arrival.

It's common enough to describe a film as being like no other you've ever seen but in this case it may literally be true.

This film is available at Netflix WatchNow. It is based in large part on the work of Donald Thomson; read more here and here:

The Donald Thomson Collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant collections of Aboriginal cultural heritage material in the world.

A book, Thomson Time: Arnhem Land in the 1930s----A Photographic Essay, provides a rare look at a culture, a first-hand account of the lives of Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land in the 1930s, a time of rapid change.

Ten Canoes