Diagrams relating to Devon Downs excavation, 1929-1930

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/02 / Diagrams relating to Devon Downs excavation, 1929-1930
Supplementary to 'Diary of Researches 1922-1930' (AA 338/1/2)

These items include stratigraphic and cross-sectional diagrams by Tindale relating to the 1929-1930 archaeological excavations at Devon Downs and Tartanga, South Australia. Includes pre-publication art work. Data and observations were recorded in a 1930 journal paper by HM Hale and NB Tindale published in Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. 4(2), pp. 145-218.

Items are as follows:

  1. Untitled drawing and notes in pencil shows excavation and floodline data by Tindale and Hale (see AA 124, 65x77 cm)

  2. 'Diagrammatic Section of Old Devon Downs Cliff Shelter. Scale 1/10th.' Pencil and india ink on card (75x96 cm)

  3. 'Diagrammatic Section of Old Devon Downs Cliff Shelter & Talus. Scale 1/20th.' Note on reverse reads, 'Plan of Devon Downs after first excavation'. Pencil and india ink on card (78x136 cm)

  4. 'Tartangan Beds, Tartanga R[iver] M[urray] S.A.' (note on reverse). Published as figure 4 in Tindale and Hale, Records of the South Australian Museum, 1930, vol. 4(2). Water colour and india ink on card (42x153 cm)

  5. 'Diagrammatic Cross-section of Murray Valley at Tartanga, Section 277, Hundred of Ridley S.A.' (note on reverse). Published as figure 3 in Tindale and Hale, Records of the South Australian Museum, 1930, vol. 4(2). Water colour and india ink on card (39x138 cm)

  6. Untitled diagram shows cross-sections labelled A to H between 'river' and 'lagoon'. Water colour and india ink on card (42x131 cm)

CreatorDr Norman Barnett Tindale
ControlAA 338/2/84/2-7
Date Range1929  -  1930
Quantity   7   hand-drawn diagrams (various sizes)
FormatsDrawings, Sketches, Diagrams
Series AA338/02