Letter from Tindale to Hon Sec Board for Anthropological Research, 7 May 1937

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/90 / Letter from Tindale to Hon Sec Board for Anthropological Research, 7 May 1937

Report on Tindales trip to the US and Europe.

Lists lectures delivered, anthropologists met, possible sources of research funding, discussed work of the Board of Anthropological Research. Suggested 10 year program of research on Aboriginal people of the Western Desert conducted from Adelaide and discussed with Dr Keppel and Carnegie Corporation New York. Dr Clark Wissler interested in our film of "The Daily Life of the Australian Aborigines" and will secure funding for research on daily life. Also possible funding from Dr Arnold Gesell, Yale University to record film of children from birth. Dr Hertzberg, Harvard , suggests photographs of eye of aborigines.

Professor EA Hooton, Harvard, is looking for funds for one of his men to study physical anthropology of mixed European-Tasmanian and European-Australian aboriginal blood in 1938 using Shapiro's methods on Pitcairn.

CreatorDr Norman Barnett Tindale
ControlAA338/90/22
Quantity 7cm,   1   letter
Series AA338/90