The woman in the photograph is Emma Hardinge Britten (1823–99), an English leader in the early spiritualist movement.

This photograph is by Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901). Buguet was a French medium and spirit photographer who became very famous in the early 1870s.

Sepia-toned glass slide showing a female spirit with a man and boy superimposed over her. 

The man in this glass slide is Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), a prominent scientist known for his discovery of thallium and his research into cathode rays.

In this glass slide a female spirit appears to be crowning a man with a wreath. We can only imagine how flattering an image this must have been for the man in the photograph.

This is a glass slide of 'automatic writing', spirit writing made by a medium.

Shots of landscape around Tennant Creek. The women sit near the creek named Juan Wargal, where they talk about land, children and the Dreaming.

A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women.

Over shots of landscape, an elder named Napanangka tells us about Moonga Moonga, a strong spirit who makes children from other cultures sick, and that 'he is bad and cheeky to people from other cou

Aerial views of Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island), and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) walking along the beach with children.