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 AA105/02 - Papers relating to the social organisation of Australian Aboriginal people

• Eighteen genealogical patterns

  Identifier AA 105/2/7/1-18
  Date 1934?
  Quantity 6 cm, 18 quarto sheets.

Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations

• '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,

• 'Anthropological Field Notes on the University of California at Los Angeles - University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition, North West Australia. Index and Appendices. 1953. Volume III'

  Identifier AA 338/1/19/3
  Date 1952 - 1954, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982
  Quantity 4.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 23.0x26.4cm, 538 pages, 4 inserts and 2 loose items

• 'Journal of a trip to Western Australia in search of Tribal Data by Norman B. Tindale 1966'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/27
  Date 15 March 1966 - c. 21 April 1966, 6 March 1966 - 6 August 1968 (with gaps), 27 February 1970, 31 August 1984, c1987
  Quantity 4.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.0x26.4cm, 559 pages with 12 inserts and 4 loose items in an envelope

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

• '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 1 map, 51.5x76.0 cm

• 'E4 - Broome' (Western Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/101
  Date 1954, date in annotation; map printed 1945
  Quantity 1 map, 55.0x74.5 cm

• 'Sheet 16 - Broome' (Topographical Series - Western Australia)

  Identifier AA 338/15/119
  Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1949
  Quantity 1 map, 74.0x95.0 cm

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

• Broome (3223)

  Identifier AA 338/18/15
  Date 1965 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

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

• Sketch map showing 'tribes' in the King Sound coastal region of Western Australia

  Identifier AA 338/23/6
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 1 map, 40.0x54.5 cm

• Sketch map showing 'tribes' in the King Sound coastal region of Western Australia

  Identifier AA 338/23/7
  Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
  Quantity 1 map, 33.5x51.0 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• Letter from Father Ernest Ailred Worms to NB Tindale relating to the spelling and distribution of Western Australian 'tribes'

  Identifier AA 338/26/11/1-2
  Date 7 February 1953
  Quantity 2 pages

• NB Tindale notes from a Leo Adam's manuscript relating to the spelling of Ba:d and Garidja and the 'culture hero' Djamar

  Identifier AA 338/26/17
  Date 1955?
  Quantity 1 page

Series AA338/42 - Australian Anthropology - Slides Volume 15

• 'BAAD TRIBE'

  Identifier AA 338/42/124
  Date 31 March 1966
  Quantity 1 35mm colour slide

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

• 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 AA689/09 - Anthropometric data cards from Board for Anthropological Research expeditions and cranial data cards recorded at numerous institutions

• 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