Tagalag (QLD)

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Location: Middle Gilbert River; north nearly to Einasleigh River; south to Gregory Range; at Forest Home; east to Georgetown and Forsayth; west to near Croydon. Reference in the 1940 text to Abingdon Downs was a lapse. A few people of this tribe have the unusual, for Australia, B-blood gene.

Co-ordinates: 143°0'E x 18°20'S

Area: 3,900 sq. m. (10,100 sq. km.)

References: Davidson, 1938; Sharp, 1939; Tindale, 1940, 1963 MS.

Alternative Names: Dagalang (valid variant), Da:galag, Takalak, Targalag, Tarkalag.

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 338/1/25 - 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963.'

Item AA 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

Item AA 338/7/2/58 - Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

Item AA 338/7/2/59 - Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

Item AA 338/7/2/60 - Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

Item AA 338/8/20 - Parallel Vocabularies

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

Item AA 338/15/41 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'

Item AA 338/15/47 - 'Vacuum Road Map of Queensland'

Item AA 338/18/12 - Normanton (3220)

Item AA 338/22/3 - 'Stone Axe Data'

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.