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 AA105/01 - Journals and notebooks relating to expeditions

• 'Pandi-pandi and Lake Eyre'

  Identifier AA 105/1/2
  Date c. 1934
  Quantity 21.5 cm, 1 17.6x11.4cm journal.

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

Series AA338/05 - Photographs relating to journals

• 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

• 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)

• 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

  Identifier AA 338/15/40
  Date 1938 - 1939, dates in annotation; map printed 1937
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 69.0x101.5 cm

• Map of Queensland coast from Bundaberg to Brisbane

  Identifier AA 338/15/129
  Date 1954 - 1958, dates in annotations
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 44.0x59.0 cm

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

• Brisbane (3340)

  Identifier AA 338/18/24
  Date 1967 - c. 1974, from date in annotation through approximate period map was used Map printed 1965
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

Series AA338/22 - Maps - Continental distribution of material culture traits, etc.

• 'Stone Axe Data'

  Identifier AA 338/22/3
  Date c. 1940 - ?, date of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 34.0x44.5 cm

Series AA338/23 - Maps - Sketch maps showing Aboriginal 'tribes'

• Sketch map showing 'tribes' in the vicinity of Brisbane, southeastern Queensland

  Identifier AA 338/23/3
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 22.5x30.0 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• 'Extracts from final copy of paper by Winterbotham July, 1956, to be used for tribal paper'

  Identifier AA 338/26/19/1-9
  Date July 1956 - October 1956
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 9 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

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