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

• 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/15/1
  Date 14 October 1936 - 1978?, 14 October 1936-26 October 1939, 1950s, 26 March 1968, 1978
  Quantity 5.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22x26.5 cm, 799 pages, 27 inserts, 1 loose item

• 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/37
  Date 1938 - 1963, 11 July 1903, 21 August-13 November, December 1938, June & July 1962, 22-29 July 1963
  Quantity 6.8 cm, 1 buckram bound journal, 26.5x22.5cm, 3 loose items

Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research

• ‘Barrinean Tribes’

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/2
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 17.5 cm of cards

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

• 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'

  Identifier AA 338/15/41
  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'

• Townsville (3219)

  Identifier AA 338/18/11
  Date 1966 - 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' in the Cairns district of northeastern Queensland

  Identifier AA 338/23/2
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 22.5x27.5 cm

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

• Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/20
  Date May 1938 - June 1939, some cards have later annotations
  Quantity 350 cm, 11 file card drawers containing data cards

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