This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
Some small ornamental tipis and other moosehide artifacts created by members of the Sweetgrass Cree band for the Saskatoon Arts and Crafts Society fair in 1951.