The language used in this story is quoted directly from tourism marketing material. These tourism images and the language used to create them are important historical records. They both reflect and help shape attitudes and aspirations. Some of these images are now considered unacceptable. My purpose is to highlight historical sensibilities. By referring to them I seek to critique rather than endorse their usage.

Aboriginal readers are warned that this paper includes names and images of deceased persons. I thank Gabriel Possum and Isobel Hagan for kindly granting their permission to reproduce images of their grandfather, Gwoja Tjungurrayi.

Figure 5.1. ‘Definitive’ Commonwealth stamp 1950.

Design Nicholas Freeman, Freeman Design Partners.

Figure 5.2. Bamboro-Kain 1839.

Navy Art Gallery, Naval Historical Centre, Washington DC, [detail, image reversed].

Figure 5.3. Photograph of Gwoja Tjungurrayi 1935.

Walkabout, September 1950 cover [detail]. Reproduced with permission from Tjungurrayi’s granddaughters Gabriel Possum and Isobel Hagan.

Figure 5.4. Indian Detour on The Chief, 1929 Grand Canyon Line, Santa Fe Railroad.

Reproduced with permission from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, Texas.

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