In style, technique and subject matter this drawing of a ringer, the man who leads and sets the pace for all the other sheep-shearers, is close to the studies Drysdale was to make for ‘Journey among Men’, the book produced as a record of an extended expedition he and Professor Jock Marshall had made across Australia in 1961 (see The Stockman c.1950’s (?)).  The objective compassion and understanding towards Aboriginal people that these studies reveal did much to help shift the negative stereotypical attitudes of the day towards them.