Series AA 52/4 comprises archaeological data gathered by Campbell during fieldwork in South Australia and interstate, as well as related correspondence, notes and other documentation.

Archaeological data

Series AA 52/4 comprises archaeological data gathered by Campbell during fieldwork in South Australia and interstate, as well as related correspondence, notes and other documentation.

AA 52/4/1
Folder labelled 'Stone Implement Census', with details of artefacts collected by Campbell from Aboriginal campsites, mainly in the Woomera area, including Bellamy Sandhills, Engine Well, Roxby Downs, Lake Koolymilka, Young's Lagoon, Arcoona, Elizabeth Creek, Lake Richardson and Pimba. Some data is also included from other sites in South Australia, including Dempsey's Swamp (near Port Augusta), Whitwarta (near Balaklava), Tallaringa Well, and sites in the south-east of South Australia, including Benara (near Millicent), Hood's Drift and Mt Gambier. The folder also includes details on artefacts collected by Campbell in 1947 from sites in western Victoria, including Cape Bridgewater, Lake Lonsdale and Point Cook. The artefact collections date to the period 1947-1965.

AA 52/4/2
Notebook entitled 'Key Symbols Implements' on spine and on inside cover 'Notes on the flint implements of the Australian Aboriginal'. This book comprises Campbell's observations of stone artefact typology and raw materials in the Cooper Creek area, as well as notes abstracted from historical and ethnographic sources. The book also includes data on archaeological sites from which Campbell collected stone artefacts between the 1940s and 1960s, including the Belt Site, Bevilaqua Cliff, Blackfellows' Caves, Cape Northumberland, Green Point, Hood's Drift, Woakwine Range and Beachport in the south-east of South Australia, sites south of Adelaide (Hallett's Cove, Sellick's Beach and Normanville) and sites in the area between Port Augusta and Lake Torrens, including Dempsey's Swamp, Bellamy Sandhills, Woomera, Arcoona and Roxby Downs.

AA 52/4/3
Correspondence, notes and other documentation relating to Aboriginal archaeology, including the following items:

• Handwritten translation of part of a paper published by Dr H Basedow, 'Der Tasmanienschadel ein Insulartypus' in Zeitschrift fur Ethnogie, Vol 1, 1910, relating to the metrical characteristics of Tasmanian Aboriginal skulls.
• Typed list of questions concerning stone artefact types and technology, with handwritten answers and comments by George Aiston.
• Typed list by George Aiston of 51 material culture items of the 'Wonkanguru' tribe, including the Wangkangurru name for each item, plus a brief description.
• Typescript paper (three pages) by AS Kenyon (23 September 1921) entitled 'The stone implements of the Australian Aboriginal', providing some information on stone artefact typology and manufacture.
• Handwritten letter from AC Haddon in Cambridge, UK, to Campbell on 27 October 1926 re stone artefacts given by Campbell to Cambridge Museum (?) in 1923. A typed list of stone artefact types numbered from 1-58 and 'described by Miles C. Burkitt and A. C. Haddon' is attached. Another typed list of artefact types numbered from 59-157, evidently a galley-proof page for a publication, is probably related to the Haddon letter.
• Typescript paper (one page) entitled 'Ground stone axes (unhafted)', author and date unknown. Includes reference to a diorite axe quarry in the MacDonnell Ranges (NT) and to the Warramunga tribe (NT).
• Typescript and handwritten notes, evidently by Campbell, on Aboriginal methods of cooking food in central Australia.
Index card labelled 'Trips concerning archaeology', listing the archaeological field trips undertaken by Campbell between 1943-1959.
• Handwritten letter from Arnold Trueman at Burra North, 26 May 1944 reporting an Aboriginal engraving site near Baldina Creek.
• Handwritten note from Campbell to HH Finlayson, 16 September 1947, referring to discovery of an Aboriginal skeleton at Freeling in the Mid North of South Australia. Campbell advises that some marsupial remains were found in association with the skeleton.
• Typescript paper by Lindsay Black entitled Some customs of the Aboriginals of the Darling River Valley, delivered at ANZAAS Conference in Hobart, 1949. This paper includes some information on the 'Barkinji', 'Kamilaroi' and 'Wiradjuri' tribes, and descriptions of Aboriginal sites in the Darling River area, including burial sites, stone arrangements, fish traps, rock engravings and rock paintings. There is also some discussion of stone artefacts including cylcons and grooved axes. Black's paper includes a sketch map showing the locations of some of the sites discussed in the text.
• Correspondence (1950) re discovery of Aboriginal rock engraving sites at Eucolo Creek and Wild Dog Creek, near Woomera.
• Handwritten list of stone artefacts from Millers Creek and Arcoona, apparently presented to SA Museum in December 1953.
• Correspondence from SA Museum to Campbell (1958-61) re donation of stone artefacts from Lake Hart, Roxby Downs and Arcoona, Lake Victoria (NSW), south-east South Australia and Yuendumu (NT). Also includes typewritten notes by Tindale on artefacts collected from Lake Hart and Roxby Downs.
• Typescript report on an Aboriginal burial site near Hackham, south of Adelaide, by Graeme Pretty, c. 1964. Page 1 of the report is missing. The site contained the skeletons of at least five individuals and some stone artefacts and other cultural material. The report includes a b/w photo showing skeletal material exposed in a trench excavated by Pretty, and a map showing the location of the site.
• Typed list of Aboriginal stone artefacts types with heading 'All specimens are rather of the smaller size of implements'; the artefacts are listed from A-S.
• Copy of draft paper by MJ Barrett entitled 'Australian Aboriginal customs and beliefs concerning teeth' (c. 1965). Provides some information obtained from Aboriginal people at Yuendumu (NT) on vocabulary and mythology relating to teeth, and Aboriginal cures for tooth-ache.

AA 52/4/4
Newspaper cuttings relating to Aboriginal archaeology:

• Article by H Basedow in The Saturday Journal, 19 December 1925, entitled 'The ingenuity of the Blacks'. This article discusses the occurrence and use of slate-scraping tools found at Normanville, Woodville and other sites in the Adelaide area.
• Article from The Saturday Journal, 26 December 1925, by P Stapleton on Aboriginal slate-scraping implements. This article includes references to examples of these tools found at the Patawalonga and Tea Tree Gully (near Adelaide), and at Tantanoola and Cape Douglas in south-east South Australia.
• Article from The Advertiserl, 20 January 1964, reporting the discovery of a new cave on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura in Western Australia.
• Article from The Advertiser, 13 May 1964, reporting the discovery by Campbell's expedition of stone tools at Tallaringa Well in the Great Victoria Desert.
• Article from an unidentified ACT newspaper, 6 October 1964, reporting the discovery of stone artefacts in the Canberra suburb of Dickson.
• Undated clipping (c. 1967) reporting on the progress of the survey by the Anthropological Society of South Australia to record Aboriginal canoe trees in the Chowilla area.

AA 52/4/5
Documentation relating to Campbell's archaeological investigations in the South-East of South Australia:

• Correspondence between Campbell and the Commonwealth Minister for the Army (Feb-March 1947) relating to Campbell's request that depth-sounding of the coastline of south-east South Australia be undertaken by the Australian Navy.
• Letter from Campbell to David Brookman, SA Minister of Agriculture, on 3 May 1962 requesting the Minister's assistance to obtain aerial photographs of the South-East.
• Letter from Campbell to Graham (Pretty?) on 25 March 1963 re archaeological investigations in the South-East.
• Letter from David Brookman, SA Minister of Agriculture, to Campbell on 13 September 1963 re archaeological investigations at Mt Burr.
• Correspondence with Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (1963) relating to grant for archaeological investigations in the south-east of South Australia.
• Correspondence, receipts and expenditure relating to fieldwork in the south-east of South Australia, 1963-4.
• Proposed itinerary for trip to South-East South Australia (no date).
• Letter from HH Finlayson to Campbell on 19 April 1965 concerning identification of faunal remains from archaeological excavations in the south-east of South Australia.
• Draft typescript report entitled 'Rock shelter excavation South Australia', with handwritten corrections. The report documents the results of archaeological excavations carried out at Mt Burr and Bevilaqua Cliff in the south-east of South Australia by Campbell, Hossfeld, Edwards and others in the early 1960s. Included are reports on the mammalian fauna by HH Finlayson, mollusca by BC Cotton and reptilian fauna by FJ Mitchell. The report also includes plans and sections of the Mt Burr and Bevilaqua Cliff excavations.
• Hand-drawn coloured map showing 'The natural regions of the S. E.'.
• Map of the south-east of South Australia showing the locations of Aboriginal campsites examined by Campbell and Noone, including sites in the Woakwine Range, Reedy Creek Range, Kongorong Range and Canunda Ridge, and other sites near Mt Muirhead, Cape Buffon and Maggoty Point.
• Set of b/w aerial photos of the Coorong-South East area. Some of these photos have minor pencil annotations.
• Topographic maps of Naracoorte (1:253,440 scale) and Milang (1:63,360 scale). The Naracoorte map has some minor pencil annotations, presumably by Campbell.

This series also includes the following newspaper cuttings relating to the prehistory, history and geology of the South-East of South Australia:

• Article by Campbell published in The South-Eastern Times on 1 March 1932 entitled 'Millicent - years ago'.
• Article by Campbell published in The Australasian on 4 July 1934 re 'The Mount Gambier Blacks'.
• Article by Campbell published in The South Eastern Times on 12 January 1960 entitled 'History - made and making'.
• Article from The South Eastern Times, 12 January 1960 entitled 'Geologically the most interesting in world'.
• Articles from The South Eastern Times, 6 October 1961 and 17 October 1961 re exploration of a cave in the Tantanoola Range.
• Clipping from Adelaide newspaper on 26/1/1962 concerning early history of the Penola district, including reference to an Aboriginal stockman, Frank Johnson.

This series is housed in Box 5.

This series contains references to the following South Australian regions: Adelaide - Mount Lofty Ranges; Nullarbor - Great Victoria Desert; North West; North Central; North East; Flinders Ranges; Central East; South East; Yorke Peninsula; Eyre Peninsula.

This series contains references to: Australian Capital Territory; New South Wales; Northern Territory; Tasmania; Victoria; Western Australia.

This series contains references to the following named groups: Wonkanguru; Warramunga, Barkinji; Kamilaroi; Wiradjuri

Corresponding Tindale Tribes: Wongkanguru; Waramanga; Barkindji; Kamilaroi; Wiradjuri.

Corresponding AIATSIS Tribal/Language Groups: Wangkangurru; Warumungu; Barkindji; Kamilaroi; Wiradjuri.