This item consists of 8 manila folders containing papers relating to the transfer of NB Tindale's wax cylinder recordings to magnetic tape in 1980. These papers include: accession documents; photocopied pages from Alice Moyle's (1966) A Handlist of Field Collections of Recorded Music in Australia and Torres Strait, AIAS, Canberra, the S.A. Museum Speech and Sound Collections register (AA 338/12/4), and Tindale's field journals.

The folders are:

1. Accession documents for wax cylinders
   
   
2. Macdonald Downs (NT) 1930 Board for Anthropological Research expedition
   
   
3. Cockatoo Creek (NT) 1931 Board for Anthropological Research expedition
   
   
4. Mt Liebig (NT) 1932 Board for Anthropological Research expedition
   
   
5. Clarence Long Series, 1932
   
   
6. Extracts from Tindale's Mann & Musgrave Range (SA) 1933 Board for Anthropological Research expedition journal
   
   
7. Diamantina (SA) 1934 Board for Anthropological Research expedition
   
   
8. Warburton Range (WA) 1935 Board for Anthropological Research expedition