Series AA 31/04 comprises Black's notebooks on various topics related to anthropology, archaeology and medicine, and his collection of published and unpublished books, reports and papers, newspaper cuttings and other reference materials.

The following notebooks are included in this item:

1. Notebook 1: Notes on Native American burial practices, extracted from historical and ethnographic sources.
   
   
2. Notebook 2: Notes on Central American civilizations, extracted from historical and ethnographic sources.
   
   
3. Notebook 3: Notes on spinal physiology from medical books, and notes on Aboriginal detribalization extracted from a 1937 paper by Daniel Sutherland Davidson (AA 68).
   
   
4. Notebook 4: Notes on the medical condition known as 'boomerang leg', extracted from medical, historical and ethnographic sources.
   
   
5. Notebook 5: Notes on bejel, yaws and syphilis, extracted from medical and historical sources.
   
   
6. Notebook 6: Notes on Irkintja and yaws, extracted from medical, historical and ethnographic sources.
   
   
7. Notebook 7: labelled 'Anthropometry descriptive': Notes on anthropometrics, extracted from medical and anthropological sources.
   
   
8. Notebook 8: labelled 'Anthropometry': Notes on anthropometrics, extracted from medical and anthropological sources.
   
   
9. Notebook 9: Notes on anthropometric testing techniques.
   
   
10. Notebook 10: 'Anthropology miscellaneous' contains notes on initiation at Warburton, extracted from published paper by Cecil John Hackett (1935; see AA 122).
    
    
11. Notebook 11: labelled on spine 'Photography notes': Notes on photographic and developing methods.
    
    
12. Notebook 12: Sketches of mammal skulls.
    
    
13. Notebook 13: labelled on spine 'Anthropology. Early descriptions of Australian Aborigines': Notes on Aboriginal canoes and ther watercraft, extracted from explorers' accounts and other historical sources, and historical accounts of watercraft elsewhere in the world, and miscellaneous notes on Aboriginal material culture, hunting methods and rock art.
    
    
14. Notebook 14: 'Ice Age' - notes on climatic oscillations and sea-level changes.
    
    
15. Notebook 15: Handwritten Aranda dictionary, evidently compiled by Black from earlier published and unpublished sources.
    
    
16. Notebook 16: Handwritten Aranda dictionary, evidently compiled by Black from earlier published and unpublished sources.
    
    
17. Notebook 17: marked with orange tag 'Implements incl. notes on Reg. material': Notes on Aboriginal stone artefacts from ethnographic sources, and descriptions and measurements of material culture items from South Australian Museum (SAM) collections.
    
    
18. Notebook 18: marked with orange tag 'Implements incl. notes on Reg nos of material in SA': Descriptions and measurements of stone and wooden artefacts from SAM collections.
    
    
19. Notebook 19: List of South Australian tribes extracted from Daniel Sutherland Curr's (SAMA 945) 'The Australian Race (1886), plus descriptions and measurements of stone and wooden artefacts from the SAM collections.
    
    
20. Notebook 20: Notes on anthropometric measurements.
    
    

Series 4 is housed in Boxes 4, 5 and 6.

This series includes references to: New South Wales; Northern Territory; Western Australia.

This series includes references to the following named groups: Aranda; Worora.

Corresponding Tindale Tribes: Aranda; Worora.

Corresponding AIATSIS Language Groups: Arrernte; Worora.