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 AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research

• Pitjandjara, South Australia, N.B. Tindale

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/3
  Date 1931 - c. 1966, recorded mostly in the 1930s
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 27.5 cm of cards

• Pitjandjara, South Australia, N.B. Tindale

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/4
  Date 1931 - c. 1966, recorded mostly in the 1930s
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 35 cm of cards

• Pitjandjara, South Australia, N.B. Tindale

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/5
  Date 1931 - c. 1966, recorded mostly in the 1930s
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 25.5 cm of cards

• Pitjandjara, South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/7/2/6
  Date 1931 - c. 1966
  Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 35 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

• Vocabulary of Pitjandjara, 1931-35

  Identifier AA 338/8/4
  Date 1931 - 1937
  Quantity 2 cm, 1 ring folder, 153 paper sheets (12.5 x 20.2 cm), typescript with handwritten annotations

• Vocabulary of Pitjandjara, 1931-37

  Identifier AA 338/8/5
  Date 1931 - c. 1966
  Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 bound notebook, 138pp., typescript

• 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)

• 'Vacuum Road Guide Western Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/15/61
  Date c. 1938 - c. 1939, date range of related journal; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.0 cm

• 'Vacuum Road Guide Western Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/15/62
  Date c. 1938 - c. 1939, date range of related journal; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.0 cm

• 'VIII/800 Eastern Division' - Western Australia survey map

  Identifier AA 338/15/75
  Date 1938 - 1939, date range of related journal; map printed 1927
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 67.0x97.0 cm

• 'IX/800 Eastern Division' - Western Australia survey map

  Identifier AA 338/15/77
  Date 1934 - 1939, dates in annotations; map printed 1933
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 63.0x86.5 cm

• 'Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia' (Sheet 3)

  Identifier AA 338/15/94
  Date 1953 - , earliest date in annotation; map printed 1931
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 86.0x105.5 cm

• 'H.5 - Forrest' (Western Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/111
  Date 1934 - 1935, dates in annotations; map printed 1944
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 55.5x75.5 cm

• Map showing a proposed change to western boundary of the Pitjantjatjara as delineated in Tindale's 1974 map

  Identifier AA 338/15/220/1-2
  Date 1976, date in annotation and accompanying letter
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 2 items: map, 40.0x47.5 cm; letter (4 pages) and copy of book cover (A4 sheet)

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

• Wiluna (3345)

  Identifier AA 338/18/30
  Date 1960 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Kalgoorlie (3352)

  Identifier AA 338/18/33
  Date 1939 - c. 1974, from date in annotation through approximate period map was used Map printed 1963
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Nullarbor Plain (3353)

  Identifier AA 338/18/34
  Date 1933 - c. 1974, from date in annotation through approximate period map was used Map printed 1963
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• Letter from Philip Jud Epling to NB Tindale relating to the distribution of Western Australian and South Australian 'tribes'

  Identifier AA 338/26/6/1-5
  Date 1 February 1952
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 5 pages

• 'Miss Gwen Walsh's Notes July, 1958'

  Identifier AA 338/26/21
  Date July 1958
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 page

• Ronald M Berndt maps depicting 'The Western Desert Area of Australia' and 'Tribal Perspective of Jigalong Aborigines-1957'

  Identifier AA 338/26/21
  Date 1957? - 1959?
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 page, 2 maps

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

• 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 AA689/01 - Bound volumes of expedition journals, notes, anthropometric and morphometric data on Australian and foreign collections and blood grouping data.

• 'Isogenic Analysis'

  Identifier AA 689/1/6
  Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with gray binding, 46pp., 31x20 cm

• 'Serology 1'

  Identifier AA 689/1/7/1
  Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with red binding, 44pp., 31.8x20.2 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

• 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