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

• 'Murray River Notes by Norman B. Tindale. 1930-1952. Adelaide, South Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/1/31/1
  Date 7 November 1932 - 23 November 1952, 13 July 1853, 1863, c1870-80, 1926-1927, 1929-1939, 1941, 3 June 1945, November 1952, 12 July 1973
  Quantity 3.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.5x26.8 cm, 364 pages with 2 inserts and 2 loose items

• 'Murray River. 1953'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/31/2
  Date 21 November 1952 - 2 July 1964, 21 November 1952, July 1964, August 1985 (note)
  Quantity 1.4 cm, 1 hardcover exercise book with buckram covered spine, 25.0x25.3 cm, 162 pages

• 'Journal of Researches in the South East of S. Australia by Norman B. Tindale. Volume 1. 1931-1934 with some earlier notes copied in'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/33/1
  Date 1931 - 1934, 30 July 1925, 2 July 1927, November 1930 - 16 April 1937 with gaps, 25 March 1940, 1976
  Quantity 3.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.8x26.9cm, 374 pages

• 'Journal of Researches in the South East of S. Australia by Norman B. Tindale. Volume II. 1934-[1940]'

  Identifier AA 338/1/33/2
  Date 1934 - c. 1940, November 1890, 1934-1938, 1940, 26 October 1946, c1985
  Quantity 5.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.2x26.4 cm, 340 pages with 3 loose items

Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research

• 'Vocabularies: Potaruwutj'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/16
  Date 1931 - c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 19.5 cm of cards

• 'Vocabularies M - P'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/19
  Date c. 1931 - c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 12.8 cm of cards

• 'Vocabulary: S.E. of S. Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/20
  Date c. 1931 - c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 13.3 cm of cards

• 'English of S.E. of S.A. Vocabularies'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/21
  Date 1931 - c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 29.4 cm of cards

• 'Vocabulary: Tangane'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/23
  Date c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 31 cm of cards

• 'Place Names: S.E. of S. Australia for Geo Names Board, Adelaide'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/43
  Date c. 1924 - c. 1991
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 16.7 cm of cards

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

• 'N B Tindale's early enquiries 1920-1930' (South Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/2
  Date 1920 - 1930, dates in annotations; map printed 1912
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 71.0x102.0 cm

• '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

• 'Vacuum Road Guide to Victoria'

  Identifier AA 338/15/53
  Date 1940, date in annotation; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x76.0 cm

• 'Atlantic Union Road Map Victoria'

  Identifier AA 338/15/55
  Date c. 1938 - c. 1939, date range of related journal; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 49.0x76.0 cm

• 'Victoria'

  Identifier AA 338/15/169
  Date c. 1979 - c. 1980, dates in annotations; date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x75.0 cm

• 'Victoria'

  Identifier AA 338/15/170
  Date c. 1970 - 1980?, date of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 55.0x83.5 cm

Series AA338/16 - Maps - South East of South Australia

• 'N B Tindale's earliest field notes on S. A. aborigines afterwards widely extended approx. 1920 - 1930'

  Identifier AA 338/16/1
  Date 1920 - 1972, dates in annotations; map printed 1912
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 53.0x70.0 cm

• Map of central South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/16/4
  Date c. 1935 - ?, date of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 61.0x91.0 cm

• Map of central South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/16/5
  Date c. 1935 - ?, date of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 61.0x85.5 cm

• Map of The Coorong and southeastern South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/16/27
  Date c. 1934 - ?, dates of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 66.0x93.5 cm

• 'Gregory's Metric Road Map South Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/16/40
  Date c. 1970 - c. 1985, dates of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 74.0x93.0 cm

• 'South Australia' road map (BP)

  Identifier AA 338/16/41
  Date c. 1970 - c. 1985, dates of annotation and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 50.0x74.5 cm

• 'Mannum'

  Identifier AA 338/16/62
  Date 1978, date in annotation; map printed 1973
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 56.0x77.0 cm

• 'Mobilong'

  Identifier AA 338/16/63
  Date 1978, date in annotation; map printed 1972
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 57.0x75.5 cm

• 'Mobilong'

  Identifier AA 338/16/64
  Date 1978, date in annotation; map printed 1972
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 57.0x75.5 cm

• 'Aboriginal Landscape of the Lower Murray Valley South Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/16/68
  Date 1978, date of printing date of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 49.0x83.5 cm

• 'Aboriginal Landscape of the Lower Murray Valley South Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/16/69
  Date 1978, date of printing date of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 49.0x83.5 cm

• 'Aboriginal Landscape of the Lower Murray Valley South Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/16/70
  Date 1978, date of printing date of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 49.0x83.5 cm

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

• Adelaide (3458)

  Identifier AA 338/18/41
  Date 1964 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Hamilton (3469)

  Identifier AA 338/18/45
  Date 1963 - 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'

• 'Patrilineal Hordes of the Tribes of the Murray Mouth'

  Identifier AA 338/23/4
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 41.5x53.5 cm

• Sketch map showing 'tribes' in southeastern South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/23/5
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 38.5x45.0 cm

Series AA338/24 - Maps - Hundreds and counties, South East of South Australia

• 'Bonney' (printed 1926)

  Identifier AA 338/24/17
  Date c. 1931 - c. 1937, approximate date range of annotations; map printed 1926
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 48.0x51.0 cm

• 'Bonney' (printed 1926)

  Identifier AA 338/24/18
  Date 1931 - ?, date in annotation; map printed 1926
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 48.5x50.5 cm

• 'Glyde'

  Identifier AA 338/24/32
  Date c. 1934 - 1938, approximate range of annotations; map printed 1920
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 50.0x 62.5 cm

• 'Glyde'

  Identifier AA 338/24/33
  Date c. 1934 - 1986, most annotations c1934-1938; map printed 1929
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 52.0x63.5 cm

• 'Co. Cardwell' [and County Buckingham]

  Identifier AA 338/24/112
  Date 1936 - ?, date of original annotations transcribed to this map. date of transcription and printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 76.5x139.0 cm

• 'Co. Cardwell' [and County Buckingham]

  Identifier AA 338/24/113
  Date 1936 - ?, range of annotations unknown, mostly 1936 date of printing unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 67.0x134.0 cm

• 'County Russell' (printed 1931)

  Identifier AA 338/24/128
  Date c. 1936 - c. 1980, approximate range of annotation; map printed 1931
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 68.5x90.0 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• Letter from RG Kimber to NB Tindale relating to the distribition of Victoria and South Australia 'tribes'

  Identifier Aa 338/26/41/1-9
  Date 25 June 1969
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 9 pages

• Letter from RG Kimber to NB Tindale relating to the language and distribution of the Ngarkat, South Australia

  Identifier AA 338/26/42/1-4
  Date 26 June 1969
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 4 pages

• Letter from NB Tindale responding to comments made by RG Kimber on Ngarkat distribution predominantly and Milerum

  Identifier AA 338/26/44/1
  Date 2 July 1969
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 page

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

• 'South Australia Unnumbered' data cards

  Identifier AA346/4/2
  Date c. 1927 - c. 1932, most cards are undated
  Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm