Archival Resources Details
Norman B. Tindale Archives
- Title
- Norman B. Tindale Archives
- Repository
- South Australian Museum Archives
- Reference
- AA338
- Date Range
- 1921 - 1991
- Description
Norman B. Tindale's collection documents his professional research as a South Australian Museum anthropologist and later as a visiting Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of Colorado during retirement. Tindale's expedition journals became the backbone of his documentation containing daily meticulous scientific observations. These observations served as a primary resource to document specimens and on Aboriginal tribal groups for his 1974 publication and map 'Aboriginal Tribes of Australia'. To the main series of expedition journals, Tindale added desk journals and volumes containing notes and compilations on various subjects. As supporting documentation to the journals, Tindale created and collected supplementary papers that including maps, drawings, Aboriginal vocabularies and genealogies, crayon drawings by Aboriginal people, anthropometric and sociological data cards, audiovisual material, photographs and artefacts.
- Formats
- Artwork, Audio, Film, Objects, Photographs, Slides, Wax Cylinders, Maps and Negatives
- Quantity
- 100 m
- Access
- By formal written request outlining area of research.
- Finding Aid
Zilio, Francesca and edited by Dr Philip Jones, Guide to the Norman B. Tindale Archives, South Australian Museum, 2000, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/Tindale.htm. Details