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

• 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/25
  Date 24 April 1963 - 30 July 1963, 3 September 1962 - 30 August 1963, 1965, 26 May 1976 and 1981
  Quantity 6 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.2x26.2 cm, 702 pages with 2 inserts

• 'Entomology and General Field Trips by Norman B Tindale. 1964-1965. Adelaide, S. Australia'.

  Identifier AA 338/1/43/3
  Date 13 October 1964 - November 1965, 1829; 1982
  Quantity 6.2 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.2x26.2cm, 766 pages with 3 inserts and 3 loose items

Series AA338/11 - Speech and sound recordings

• Gulf of Carpentaria Expedition 1963

  Identifier AA 338/11/22/CDs 1-34
  Date 1963
  Quantity 28 x 3 inch & 6 x 5 inch reels, 34 access CDs

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

• '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

• 'Newcastle Waters (3221)'

  Identifier AA 338/15/142
  Date 1963 - ?, date in annotation; map printed 1958
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 59.5x86.0 cm

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

• Roper River (3110)

  Identifier AA 338/18/8
  Date 1958 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Normanton (3220)

  Identifier AA 338/18/12
  Date 1965 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Newcastle Waters (3221)

  Identifier AA 338/18/13
  Date 1969 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 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

• Mornington Isand (Queensland) anthropological data cards

  Identifier AA 346/4/24
  Date 16 May 1963 - 25 June 1963
  Quantity 4 cm, 1 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm

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

• Gulf of Carpentaria [Mornington, Bentinck and Palm Islands] Queensland, 1963.

  Identifier AA 346/9/22
  Date 19 July 1963 - 30 July 1963, dates of expedition
  Quantity 12.5 cm, 7 film items. Formats: 16mm, Betacams, DVDs

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