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

• 'University of Adelaide and University of California Anthropological Expedition, 1952-1954.'

  Identifier AA 338/1/19/1
  Date 18 October 1952 - 15 July 1953, 1933, 1952-56, 1964-65, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1980, 1982, 1985-1987
  Quantity 6.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.0x27.0cm, 703 pages with 5 loose items and 16 inserts

• '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

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

• 'XV/800 Eastern Division' - Western Australia survey map

  Identifier AA 338/15/84
  Date 1953 - 1954, dates in annotation; map printed 1920
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 68.0x100.5 cm

• 'XV/800 Eastern Division' - Western Australia survey map

  Identifier AA 338/15/85
  Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1920
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 62.0x90.0 cm

• 'Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia' (Sheet 3)

  Identifier AA 338/15/94
  Date 1953 - , earliest date in annotation; map printed 1931
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 86.0x105.5 cm

• 'F.4 - Port Hedland' (Western Australia) [Map 'II']

  Identifier AA 338/15/105
  Date 1953, date in annotation on related map 338/15/104. Map printed 1950
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 54.5x78.0 cm

• 'F.5 - Tanami' (Western Australia and Northern Territory) [Map 'I']

  Identifier AA 338/15/106
  Date 1953 - 1964, dates in annotations; map printed 1945
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 55.0x75.0 cm

• 'F.5 - Tanami' (Western Australia and Northern Territory) [Map 'II']

  Identifier AA 338/15/107
  Date 1953 - 1964, dates in annotations; map printed 1945
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 54.5x75.0 cm

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

• Oakover River (3230)

  Identifier AA 338/18/17
  Date 1931 - 1976, date range of annotations; map printed 1958
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Oakover River (3230)

  Identifier AA 338/18/18
  Date 1967 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

• Lake Mackay (3231)

  Identifier AA 338/18/19
  Date 1931 - c. 1974, from date of first data collection (from Tindale's title) through approximate period map was used
  Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm

Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'

• Letter from Father Ernest A 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 0.01 cm, 2 pages

• Letter from NB Tindale to Ian Mackay providing amendments to Mackay's proposed map of 'tribal distribution' for exhibition

  Identifier AA 338/26/23/1-3
  Date 24 December 1959
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 3 pages

• RM Berndt map depicting 'Tribal Perspective of Jigalong Aborigines - 1954'

  Identifier AA 338/26/27/1-2
  Date 1964
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 2 maps

• 'A Short outline of a Nangatara movement out of the western desert of Western Australia'

  Identifier AA 338/26/54/1-2
  Date 10 December 1977
  Quantity 0.01 cm, 2 pages

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 AA689/01 - Bound volumes of expedition journals, notes, anthropometric and morphometric data on Australian and foreign collections and blood grouping data.

• 'Isogenic Analysis'

  Identifier AA 689/1/6
  Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
  Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with gray binding, 46pp., 31x20 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