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

• 'University of Adelaide and University of California Anthropological Expedition, 1952-1954.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/19/1
  Date 18 October 1952 - 15 July 1953, 1933, 1952-56, 1964-65, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1980, 1982, 1985-1987
  Quantity 6.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.0x27.0cm, 703 pages with 5 loose items and 16 inserts

• 'Anthropological Field Notes on the University of California at Los Angeles - University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition, North West Australia. Volume II. Pp.692a-1250'

  Identifier AA 338/1/19/2
  Date 15 July 1953 - 30 October 1953, 1953-55, 1 Oct 1958, 1961, 1964-65, 1979, 1981-82
  Quantity 5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.1x26.8 cm,

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

• 'Sheet 18 - Wyndham' (Topographical Series - Western Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/122
  Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1949
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 74.5x99.5 cm

• 'Sheet 18 - Wyndham' (Topographical Series - Western Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/123
  Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1949
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 74.0x96.0 cm

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

• Brunswick Bay (3108)

  Identifier AA 338/18/6
  Date 1967 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Darwin (3109)

  Identifier AA 338/18/7
  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 AA338/23 - Maps - Sketch maps showing Aboriginal 'tribes'

• Sketch map showing 'tribes and clans' of the coastal region of the northern Kimberleys, Western Australia

  Identifier AA 338/23/8
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 34.0x48.0 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• Letter from NB Tindale to Ian Mackay providing amendments to Mackay's proposed map of 'tribal distribution' for exhibition

  Identifier AA 338/26/23/1-3
  Date 24 December 1959
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 3 pages

• 'Tribal Locations in the Northern Kimberley' by PH Lurich

  Identifier AA 338/26/29/1-2
  Date May 1966
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 2 1 page and 1 map

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

• University of California at Los Angeles and University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition sociological and anthropological data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/22
  Date 2 December 1952 - 7 August 1954
  Quantity 176 cm, 4 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm

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

• The University of California at Los Angeles and University of Adelaide Anthropological Data Cards, 1952-54.

  Identifier AA 689/9/17
  Date 1952 - 1954, dates in annotations
  Quantity 64 cm, 3 Albox boxes and one black folder with index