1. General terms used by Aboriginal people. Terms discussed include Murgin in the Northern Territory, terms in the Pilbara, Targudi/Tjargudi.Distinguishing between non-tribal terms and tribal descriptors.

2. Book reviews and commentary on Aboriginal Tribes of Australia
Sydney Morning Herald article about Tindale map 15 July 1974
Kirkus Review 1 April 1975
American Reference Books Annual 6th edition 1975
Science Washington DC 27 February 1976
Science Washington DC 4 July 1975
The Blade 6 July 1975
American Anthropologist 15 June 1975
American Anthropologist 1976, by Harold W. Scheffler
Science 27 February 1976 by MJ Meggitt (multiple copies)
Pacific Travel News February 1976
Book Review Digest December 1975
The Key Reporter Winter 1975-1976
Pacific Affairs Winter 1975-76 by Robert Tonkinson
Ethnohistory Spring 1974 by Arnold Pilling
Anthropology 15 December 1976 by Rodney Needham
Advertiser 24 March 1970
Advertiser 25 March 1970 by Max Fatchen
Sydney Morning Herald 16 July 1974 correspondence, map and article by Tindale
Draft of article for Current Anthropology 1977 by Philip R Thompson, 'The Rise and Fall of the Australian Aboriginal Tribe: A biosocial approach'

Article in the Adelaide Advertiser 14 sugust 1964 bt Stewart Cockburn
Notifications and listing by publishers AIAS and University of California Press
Handwritten list of complimentary copies.

3. Correspondence
FJ Watson to Tindale 20 December 1943
Joseph Birdsell to Tindale 2 February 1953
Joseph Birdsell to Tindale 15 February 1953
Joseph Birdsell to Tindale 13 March 1953
Bruce S Coaldrake to Tindale 30 January 1955
Joseph Birdsell to Tindale 4 August 1961
Mrs K Emmerson to Tindale 23 January 1962
WJ Foster to Tindale 3 February 1962
GN O'Grady to Tindale 11 may 1966
Gertrude E Dole to Tindale 26 September 1968
Tindale to HJ Hall 17 March 1976
Tony Jefferies to Tindale 8 July 1976
Tindale to AJ Keefe 27 July 1976
Joseph Birdsell to Tindale 28 March 1978
Tindale to Joseph Birdsell 22 April 1978

4. Proof sheet for captions and legends for Photographic plates for Tribes book

5. Tindale's handwritten Journal of a trip to Western Australia 1966

6. Maps of tribes

7. Draft Acknowledgments for Aboriginal Tribes of Australia

8. Handwritten and other notes from various sources about tribes and tribal boundaries

9. Mainly notes relating to organisation of the book Aboriginal Tribes, including handwritten notes; lists of illustrations, maps; files which werent used but might be at some future date; short notes about various tribes; population distribution along the Murray River; draft of a paper by Tindale 'some Ecological Bases fro Australian Tribal Boundaries