This item contains a variety of materials relating to Tindale's Aboriginal place name research for the Geographical Names Board of the South Australian Government, including:

1. Letter from Tindale to L Muller-Wille, 20 May 1988, regarding Muller-Wille's work on Inuit place names in Canada and the influence it has been on Tindale's own place names work
   
   
2. Photocopy of D Tunbridge's 'Aboriginal place names', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1987, No.2, pp. 2-13;
   
   
3. Letter from M Medwell to Tindale, 20 November 1986, on methods of inputting place name data onto the electronic database;
   
   
4. Codes for the designation of topographical features;
   
   
5. Data inputting forms;
   
   
6. Notes on a Jarildekald place name in the Hundred of Goolwa;
   
   
7. Grammatical notes relating to place name suffixes;
   
   
8. Notes for treating place names recorded in historical sources;
   
   
9. Lists of Hundreds held and 'lacking';
   
   
10. List of geographical terms in the Ngaiawang tribal area; and
    
    
11. Index of place names (incomplete).