Biographical entry Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900 - 1993)

Summary

Norman Barnett Tindale, educated at the University of Adelaide (BSc 1933), joined the South Australian Museum in 1917. He was Assistant Entomologist there from 1925 and then Curator of Anthropology c1928-62. He later developed strong ties with anthropologists in the USA.

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Norman Barnett Tindale - Records, 1930 - 1960, DeB 65; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

South Australian Museum Archives

• Norman B. Tindale Archives, 1921 - 1991, AA338; South Australian Museum Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Tindale, N. B., 'Anthropolgy', in C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies (eds), Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia, Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, 1986. Details
• Tindale, Noramn B., 'Milerum (1869?-1941), shearer and Aboriginal ethnologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 498-499. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100485b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Jones, Philip, 'Archivists in Museums: Norman B. Tindale: His Life as an Archive', in Preparing for Tomorrow: Proceedings, Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Australian Society of Archivists, Adelaide, SA, 1997, pp. 198-206. Details

Journal Articles

• Smith, M.A., '"The Opening Chapter of the Romance of Excavation in Australia": Reflections on Norman Tindale's Archaelogy', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 13, no. 2, 2000, pp. 151-160. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR0001320151.htm. Details
• Tindale, Norman B., 'A South Australian Looks at the Beginnings of Archaeological Research in Australia', Aboriginal History, vol. 6, June/December, 1982, pp. 92-110. Details

Online Resources

• Norman B Tindale, South Australian Museum, 2000, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/index.html. Details
• Nash, David, Norman B Tindale 1900-1993, ANU, 1999, http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/nbt/. Details
• 'Tindale, Norman B', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-535418. Details
• Zilio, Francesca and edited by Dr Philip Jones, Guide to the Norman B. Tindale Archives, South Australian Museum, 2000, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/Tindale.htm. Details

See also

• McIntyre, A. K., 'Walter Victor Macfarlane 1913-82', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 247-265. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620247.htm. Details