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'Tindale Tasmanians Vital Stat. Soc. Org III'

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/02 / 'Tindale Tasmanians Vital Stat. Soc. Org III'
Supplementary to 'Tasmania and the Part Aborigines of the Bass Strait Islands and Kangaroo Island, also some field notes on stone implements and general field observations on Lepidoptera by Norman B. Tindale. 1936-1965+' (AA 338/1/36)

This item includes the following:

  • handwritten notes

  • Bass Strait Islander population statistics from 1810 to 1949

  • figures

  • kinship terms used by Bass Strait Islanders

  • social organisation

  • letters to Miss Elizabeth Robinson from her uncle John A Anderson regarding the history and inhabitants of Bass Strait Islands, dated 1925 and 1926

  • extract from 'The Examiner' dated 1845

  • graded vocabulary tests

  • Tindale's and Birdsell's (see AA 689) reprint of 'Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939, Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland', dated 1941

  • newspaper clippings

  • a typescript copy of Tindale's 'Race Crossing in Australia & Tasmania'

  • Tindale's reprint 'The Antiquity of Man in Australia', dated 1941

  • AL Meston's 'Halfcastes of the Furneaux Group', dated 1947

Creator: Dr Norman Barnett Tindale
Control: AA 338/2/71
Date Range:  1845  -  1953
Quantity:  4.3cm,   1   foolscap Albox folder
Series:  AA338/02