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.
The cards compiled in this box relate to Tindale's concern with using vocabulary to map distributional patterns of cultural and natural phenomena across Australia. Header cards include: Resins; Scrub, Forest; Native Plants useful; Acacia; Bottle Brush; Bunya Pine; Burrawong; Capparis; Casuarina; Chenopods; Eucalypt; Excarpos; Fern; Fibre Supplying; Fruit Bearing; Fig Tree; Grasses; Grass Porcupine; Kurrajong; Nettle; Nicotiana; Pigface; Pigweed; Pine Callitris; Quandong; Roots incl Microseris; Rush; Shrubs; Solanum; Tea Tree; Thistle; Vine, lawyer; Water Plants; Yams and Roots; Unsorted; Literature Native Plants; Plants: C Aust. 1956. Each of these sections can be thought of as being organised according to either of two principles: subject or word. 'Grasses', for example, is a subject heading, as oppsed to 'Bottle Brush', which lists equivalent terms in Aboriginal languages for 'bottle brush'. Note also that the section 'Literature Native Plants' contains a few bibliographic cards (0.5 cm). Based on published literature sources but Tindale has also drawn from his manuscript materials.