This volume is a bound copy of pages 298 to 663 of the Harvard and Adelaide Universities expedition journal, Volume 1, (AA 338/1/15/1), pages 556-583 of the 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria' (AA 338/1/25) and supplementary papers.

The Harvard and Adelaide Universities expedition journal extract includes the following:

• Tindale's encounter with people he describes as negrito and pygmoid
  
  
• leprosy
  
  
• drawings and documentation of specimens A27336-42, A27354-6, A27358-60, A27362, A27371-4, A27376-9, A27383-6, A27390-4, A27397, A27399-406, A27409-12, A27417, A 27425-6, A27437-9, A27441-2, A27465-8, A27470, A27472, A27474-8, A27454-55 and A27524
  
  
• corroboree descriptions
  
  
• social organisation
  
  
• collection of vocabularies
  
  
• ritual spearings and weapon descriptions
  
  
• story recordings including 'The Ghost in the Spring at Wombon', 'The two ghosts of Mumulakan', 'Idindji Story of Damari and Kambulkuman', 'The Giant Mud Cod of Bak:I', 'The Canoe man who came to Kaika', 'The blind shark of Kappa Creek', 'The Indindji story of Koel and Damari', 'Story of Danba: and his wife'
  
  
• information relating to baskets and basket making
  
  
• Tja:pukai and Muluritji burial methods
  
  
• quartz crystal magic
  
  
• typescript carbon copy of station records including Mona Mona, Palm Island and Yarrabah
  
  
• Ba:baram Initiation and marriage
  
  
• forest food
  
  
• purchase of a series of photographs taken by A Atkinson about 1890-1900 of Aboriginal people in the Cairns district
  
  
• Idindji inheritance
  
  
• a typescript carbon copy of a letter from Constable CJ Smith to Norman B Tindale relating to Aboriginal people in the Millaa Millaa District
  
  
• cannibalism
  
  
• 'Koko Imudji Crocodile Ceremony'
  
  
• notes on the story of the moon
  
  
• mission life
  
  
• fish hooks
  
  
• stone implements
  
  
• navel strings
  
  
• trade
  
  
• totems and names
  
  
• Idindji initiation and marriage
  
  
• pasted printed maps with annotations
  
  
• informant information
  
  
• flora sample obtained from a Maikulun man used for medicinal purposes
  
  
• punishment
  
  
• Kunggara and Karawa initiation
  
  
• hand-drawn maps
  
  

• 2 Kokolo songs (songs for the enjoyment of singing and not dancing) by Tommy of the Keramai, called 'Carpet Snake' and 'Thunderstorm', and a song about cutting railway sleepers for the railway line
  
  
• Mitchell Dodd sung a dancing song about the emu feeding and running away, a devil song, and the Clillogie song of the Wakaman
  
  
• Harry Gordonvale sung the song about the sky and one about the crocodile
  
  
• George Watson sung a dance song, the ghost song, a love song
  
  
• Pompey Clump Point sung a dancing song to do with shoals of mullet in the sea
  
  

• a copy of a newspaper clipping entitled: 'The Little People of our Rain Forests, June 1962, and a carbon copy of a typescript article entitled 'The Little People of the Australian Rain Forest' dated July 1962
  
  
• three loose items include a black and white photograph of Busnya Pines from the Bunja Mountains Queensland, taken by Tindale in December 1938, a copy of typescript extracts from an article by Mr Charles Hedley entitled: 'A New Native Tribe Discovered', dated 1903, and a letter from Tindale to Henrietta Fourmile granting permission to use the Yarrabah genealogies, dated 16 March 1986