This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact.

Series AA207/02 - Correspondence relating to Australian Aboriginal people in the Cooper Creek region

• Correspondence relating to Australian Aboriginal people in the Cooper Creek region

  Identifier AA 207/2/1-2
  Date 1933 - 1935
  Quantity 0.5 cm, 2 letters

Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations

• 'Journal of the Anthropological Expedition to the Diamantina, North-East of South Australia. August 1934'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/12
  Date 8 August 1934 - c. 23 August 1934, 25 July 1934 - 19 February 1936 (with gaps), 30 August 1939, 23 April 1940, 1970s annotations
  Quantity 2 cm, 1 Hardcover exercise book, 20.7x25.8 cm, 242 pages, 6 inserts, 1 loose item [2?]

Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research

• 'Reuther Localities, Bibliog. Muramura'

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/56
  Date c. 1928 - c. 1934
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 31.8 cm of cards

• Reuther Loc. M-Z

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/57
  Date c. 1934
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 33 cm of cards

Series AA338/08 - Compiled vocabularies and grammatical sketches

• Parallel Vocabularies

  Identifier AA 338/8/20
  Date 1934 - c. 1976
  Quantity 44 cm, 1 type 10.1 box

Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)

• 'South Australia showing Native Tribes'

  Identifier AA 338/15/4
  Date c. 1929 - c. 1930, approximate date range of data
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 68.0x101.0 cm

• Map of the Diamantina region, northeastern South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/15/17
  Date 1934, date in annotation; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 66.0x94.0 cm

• 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

  Identifier AA 338/15/40
  Date 1938 - 1939, dates in annotation; map printed 1937
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 69.0x101.5 cm

Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'

• Cooper Creek (3342)

  Identifier AA 338/18/26
  Date 1968 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Broken Hill (3355)

  Identifier AA 338/18/36
  Date 1965 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• JG Breen letter to NB Tindale relating to the distribution and language of Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australian 'tribes'

  Identifier AA 338/26/48/1-10
  Quantity

Series AA346/04 - Sociological, Anthropological, Vital Statistics and ACER data recorded onto cards by Board for Anthropological Research expedition members, 1923-1963.

• Diamantina (South Australia) sociological and anthropological data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/16
  Date August 1934
  Quantity 9 cm, 4 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm

Series AA346/09 - Films recorded during the Board for Anthropological expeditions, 1926-1966.

• Diamantina, South Australia, 1934.

  Identifier AA 346/9/9
  Date 10 August 1934 - 28 August 1934, dates of expedition
  Quantity 33.5 cm, 15 film items. Formats: 16mm, Betacams, DVDs

Series AA64/03 - Papers relating to the collections of the South Australian Museum

• Papers relating to the collections of the South Australian Museum

  Identifier AA 64/3/1-5
  Date 1935 - 28 November 1966, not all items are dated
  Quantity 3 cm,

Series AA689/09 - Anthropometric data cards from Board for Anthropological Research expeditions and cranial data cards recorded at numerous institutions

• Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.

  Identifier AA 689/9/16
  Date 1938 - 1939, dates of expedition
  Quantity 166 cm, 41 grey Albox folders