Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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'Place Names: drafts for text'

This item consists of materials falling into three main categories. The first category contains Tindale's drafts for the proposed special gazeteer of Aboriginal place names in the South East of South Australia to be published by the Geographical Names Board of the South Australian Government. These papers have the appearance of short draft chapters and often consist of several handwritten pages on a topic and an additional typed version. The second category contains sections of place names work forwarded by Tindale to the Geographical Names Board, and the third category contains correspondence.
Headings of the draft sections, and this list is not comprehensive, include:

  • Water & camps;

  • Aboriginal name of Adelaide;

  • Tribal boundaries;

  • Notes for Potaruwutj place names;

  • Some peculiarities of the Lower Murray languages;

  • Mode of gathering and recording place names;

  • Stability of names;

  • Ngadjuri tribe;

  • Place names: Tanganekald;

  • Place names of a Ngaiawang tribal area;

  • Place name bibliography;

  • Places of special importance;

  • Errors and misunderstandings;

  • Ecology;

  • Place names as history;

  • Railway place names of Aboriginal origin in South Australia;

  • Boundaries of area in which place names have been recorded;

  • Stability of tribal nomenclatures;

  • Post-contact Aboriginal place names;

  • Murray Mallee place names;

  • Narangga; and

  • Notes for Bunganditj place names.



The sections of work forwarded to the Geographical Names Board include copies of index cards containing Narangga and Yaralde place names (for the original cards see Index cards relating to language research, AA 338/7/1). Finally, the correspondence in this item includes:

  • A letter to Tindale from the Department of Environmental Planning, 30 April 1984, answering an enquiry about 'an Aboriginal track between Nildottie and Loxton and a half-way water'; and

  • A letter from Tindale to Edward Ruhe, 25 September 1987, on place names and explorers.

CreatorDr Norman Barnett Tindale
ControlAA 338/10/2
Date Range1930  -  1991
Quantity 2cm,   1   archival folder, 180pp.
FormatsGeneral Correspondence
Series AA338/10