Bindal (QLD)

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Location: From mouth of Burdekin River north to Cape Cleveland; inland to Leichhardt Range; at Ayr.

Co-ordinates: 147°15'E x 19°35'S

Area: 1,000 sq. m. (2,600 sq. km.)

References: Gregory in Curr, 1886; O'Connor in Curr, 1886; Scott in Curr, 1886 (in part only); Schmidt, 1919; Tindale, 1940.

Alternative Names: Bendalgubber (label on specimen of a fishhook in Florence Museum ascribed to Port Denison, i.e., Bowen which is 50 miles [80 km.] southeast in adjoining Juru tribal area), North Murri.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/18/11 - Townsville (3219)

Item AA 346/4/20 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

Item AA 689/9/16 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.