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

• 'Visit to Bentinck and Mornington Islands, Queensland by Norman B. Tindale. 1960'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/23
  Date 22 April 1960 - 13 June 1960, 11 July 1903, December 1947, 17 February 1960 - 1964, 1980
  Quantity 5.5 cm, 1 buckram bound journal, 21.5x26.8cm, 508 pages with 3 loose items and 5 inserts

• 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/25
  Date 24 April 1963 - 30 July 1963, 3 September 1962 - 30 August 1963, 1965, 26 May 1976 and 1981
  Quantity 6 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.2x26.2 cm, 702 pages with 2 inserts

• '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

• 'Tja:pukai Grammar, Kuranda Queensland and Research Notes on Queensland Tribes by Norman B. Tindale. 1938-1960+'

  Identifier AA 338/1/38
  Date 1901 - 1974, 1901, 1938-1974 with gaps
  Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 19.3x23.7cm, 310 pages with 4 inserts and 2 loose items

Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research

• Queensland Tribes A-Kon, Native

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/33
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 35.5 cm of cards

• Queensland Tribes Kon-Tal, Native

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/34
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 35.5 cm of cards

• Queensland Tribes Native, Tam-W

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/35
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 18 cm of cards

• Queensland Tribes A-R, Native

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/36
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 31 cm of cards

• Queensland Tribes T-Z, Native

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/37
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 10.5 cm of cards

• Lardil, Mornington Island, QLD

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/40
  Date 1960
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 30.5 cm of cards

• Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/58
  Date 1938 - c. 1958
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 29 cm of cards

• Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/59
  Date 1938 - c. 1958
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 24 cm of cards

• Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/60
  Date 1938 - c. 1958
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 29.5 cm of cards

Series AA338/08 - Compiled vocabularies and grammatical sketches

• Queensland Vocabularies, 1960-63

  Identifier AA 338/8/19
  Date 1960 - 1963
  Quantity 17.3 cm, 1 type 1.1 box

• Parallel Vocabularies

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

• Parallel Vocabularies

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

Series AA338/11 - Speech and sound recordings

• Mornington Island (Qld) Series 1960

  Identifier AA 338/11/17/1-7
  Date 1960
  Quantity 7 x 5 inch magnetic tapes

• Bentinck Island (Qld) Series 1960

  Identifier AA 338/11/18/1-8
  Date 1960
  Quantity 8 x 5 inch magnetic tapes

• Gulf of Carpentaria Expedition 1963

  Identifier AA 338/11/22/1-34
  Date 1963
  Quantity 28 x 3 inch & 6 x 5 inch reels

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

• 'Mornington Island. Queensland'

  Identifier AA 338/15/139
  Date 1960, date in annotation; map printed c1951
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 47.0x75.0 cm

• 'Normanton (3220)'

  Identifier AA 338/15/141
  Date c. 1960 - c. 1963, date range of related journals; map printed 1957
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 59.5x86.0 cm

• 'Mornington Island. Queensland'

  Identifier AA 338/15/143
  Date 1963, date in annotation; map printed c1951
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 91.0x147.0 cm

• 'Mornington Island. Queensland'

  Identifier AA 338/15/144
  Date 1963, date in annotation; map printed c1951
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 94.5x144.5 cm

• 'Geological Plan of Mornington Island. Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland'

  Identifier AA 338/15/145
  Date 1963, date in annotation; map printed 1959
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 79.5x132.5 cm

• 'Geological Plan of Mornington Island. Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland'

  Identifier AA 338/15/146
  Date 1963, date in annotation; map printed 1959
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 80.0x132.0 cm

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

• Normanton (3220)

  Identifier AA 338/18/12
  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'

• 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

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

• Bentinck and Mornington Island (Queensland) anthropological data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/23
  Date 16 May 1960 - 2 June 1960
  Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm

• Mornington Isand (Queensland) anthropological data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/24
  Date 16 May 1963 - 25 June 1963
  Quantity 4 cm, 1 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm

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

• Bentinck and Mornington Islands, Queensland, 1960.

  Identifier AA 346/9/20
  Date 27 April 1960 - 12 June 1960, dates of expedition
  Quantity 12.5 cm, 7 film items. Formats: 16mm, Betacams, DVDs

• Gulf of Carpentaria [Mornington, Bentinck and Palm Islands] Queensland, 1963.

  Identifier AA 346/9/22
  Date 19 July 1963 - 30 July 1963, dates of expedition
  Quantity 12.5 cm, 7 film items. Formats: 16mm, Betacams, DVDs

Series AA689/03 - Professional and personal correspondence

• Letter from S Keen to JB Birdsell, 19 January 1971

  Identifier AA 689/3/4/9
  Date 19 January 1971
  Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 archive manila folder, 24.3x35.5 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