Social life, customs and material culture of Aborigines at the Herbert River Region and the Burdekin River Region; dwellings; weapons; equipment; diet; patterns of settlement and social, cultural and economic interaction; ceremony and ritual; decoration of artefacts; personal adornment; rock art; rock painting; middens; camps; quarries; holdings of twenty-eight overseas ethnographic collections; holdings of local Queensland ethnographic collections; excavations; ethnology; antiquities; country of the Giraway, Warungu, Wargamay, Bandyin, Manbarra, Njawaygi and Wulguru of the rainforest and immediately surrounding areas of the north east coast; and coastal groups south of Burdekin include Juru, Gia, Ngaro and Juwibarra; inland groups include Gugu-Badhun, Gudjal, bindal, Yilba, Jangga and Biri.