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

• '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 AA338/05 - Photographs relating to journals

• Photographs relating to Cape York, North Queensland Expedition, 1926-1927.

  Identifier AA 338/5/4
  Date 1926 - 1927, December 1926 - March 1927
  Quantity 8 cm, 2 A4 Albox folders

• Photographs relating to Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938 - 1939.

  Identifier AA 338/5/15
  Date 1938 - 1939, May 1938 - June 1939
  Quantity 13 cm, 3 Albox folders; 1 oversized and mounted on cardboard photograph

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

• 'Barrinean Tribes: Keramai, Tjapukai'

  Identifier AA 338/7/1/3
  Date 1938 - c. 1963
  Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 19 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

• 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)

• 'Cook 2 Mile Map - Sheet 1.' (northeastern Queensland)

  Identifier AA 338/15/31
  Date c. 1938 - c. 1939, date range of related journal; map printed 1931
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 59.5x90.5 cm

• '2M.426 Mareeba. Queensland Two Mile Series.'

  Identifier AA 338/15/38
  Date c. 1938 - c. 1939, date range of related journal; map printed 1936
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 56.5x76.5 cm

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

• Harvard-Adelaide Expedition: 'Pygmoid Natives of the Atherton Plateau, Queensland' 1938.

  Identifier AA 346/9/13/1/1-10
  Date August 1938 - December 1938, dates of expedition
  Quantity 26 cm, 10 film items. Formats: 16mm, Betacams, DVDs

Series AA689/03 - Professional and personal correspondence

• Letter from RMW Dixon to JB Birdsell, 17 September 1979

  Identifier AA 689/3/4/25
  Date 17 September 1979, dates of annotation
  Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 archive manila folder, 24.3x35.5 cm

Series AA689/04 - Photographic prints relating to Board for Anthropological Research expeditions; historical and studio portraits of Australian Aborginal people; foreign ethnology and cranial collections.

• Historical Photographs: Volume 1: Arthur Atkinson

  Identifier AA 689/4/3/1/23-54
  Date c. 1890
  Quantity 30 photographic prints and receipt of purchase

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