Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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'Cinefilm descriptions, lectures'

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/11 / 'Cinefilm descriptions, lectures'

The materials in this item, 8 cassettes and 10 magnetic tape reels, were considered by Norman B Tindale to be part of his 'personal and study series' of tapes. They arrived at the South Australian Museum after Tindale's death in 1993 in a shoebox labelled 'Tapes: cinefilm descriptions, lectures'.

These tapes have not been transferred to digital format.

The following contents descriptions are drawn from annotations by Tindale on the cassette covers and magnetic reel boxes:
AA 338/11/38/

  1. Tindale: Lecture on an Anthropologist looks at American archaeology to Anthropological. Society of SA, 28 April 1980. 1 x 60 min cassette

  2. Hawaiian program White Sands Motel Waikiki, 5 October 1979; Rarotongan concert, Rarotongan Hotel Rarotonga, 9 October 1979. 1 x 90 min cassette

  3. Letter from Chen Tai-lu, Peking, relating to Hepialid from Tsinghai, dated 1 March 1980. 1 x 60 minute cassette

  4. Tindale lecture at Australian National University dated 14 April 1980 on highlight of career in anthropology. 1 x 60 minute cassette

  5. Questions and answers for John Mulvaney's class Australian National University, Canberra, 21 April 1980. 1 x 60 minute cassette

  6. Presidential Address to Archaeological Section 25A, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS), Jubilee Congress, Adelaide, 12 May 1980. 1 x 60 minute cassette (1 of 2)

  7. Presidential Address to Archaeological Section 25A, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS), Jubilee Congress, Adelaide, 12 May 1980. 1 x 60 minute cassette (2 of 2)

  8. 'N B Tindale Lecture to Royal Geog Soc of Australasia, SA Branch, 8 May 1980, on occasion of his receiving the S Lewis Medal, Adelaide S Aust.' 1 x 60 minute cassette

  9. 'Beryl George speech on book, Aboriginal Australians; Ron George, 3 sessions on biological control of red scale', 1972. 1 x 4 inch reel

  10. 'Rainforest: part of an Aust. Broadcast Comm. radio talk heard at Kairi, 12 June 1972; message from Noel McFarland to Chris Henne recorded at Kairi Qld, 12 June 1972'. 1 x 4 inch reel

  11. 'Party at Morrison, Colorado, 23 April 1967 (duplicate). 1 x 3 3/8 inch reel

  12. Interview of Tindale by Australian Broadcasting Commission c30 November 1971; Bellbirds at Bemm River, Victoria, 31 January1972. 1 x 3 inch reel

  13. 'Senator Dirksen speech', Miami, Florida, 6 August 1968. 1 x 3 inch reel

  14. Bentinck Island Film: Commentary on reel 2 of film by Tindale. Apparently a commentary by Tindale while viewing an ethnographic film by Rev JB McCarthy of Mornington Island (Qld). Formerly stored with Tindale's 1960 and 1963 Bentinck Island films. 1 x 4 ¼ inch reel

  15. 'Bentinck I film by Mr J B McCarthy of Mornington I. Mrs McCarthy's commentary. A recording of the original tape'. Formerly stored with Tindale's 1960 and 1963 Bentinck Island films. 1 x 3 inch reel

  16. 'Lecture on how to conduct anthropological research, 20 May 1967, at Colorado'. 1 x 4 inch reel

  17. Lecture sample tape 'Copies of my [Tindale's] Bentinck I songs (2); Mornington I Songs (3); Pintubi songs - Koneia snake, kunkarungkalpa' 1 x 2 7/8 inch reel

  18. Lecture by Tindale on his many years of research work in the South East of South Australia, 7 May 1980, Adelaide. 1 x 5 inch reel



Note that 10 x 90 minute cassettes containing Tindale's film narrations recorded in 1968 at UCLA and a Bentinck Island lecture recorded in 1975 have been moved by the archive to series AA 346/9/26 'Narration Tapes relating to Board for Anthropological Research films'.

Creator: Dr Norman Barnett Tindale
Control: AA 338/11/38/Tapes 1-18
Date Range:  1967  -  1980
Quantity:    1   shoebox containing 8 cassettes and 10 magnetic tape reels
Series:  AA338/11