This series contains restricted material.

This items consists of magnetic tape recordings of Lardiil songs and narratives made by Norman B Tindale in 1960 during the Board for Anthropological Research expedition to Bentinck and Mornington Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria region of Queensland. Tindale travelled to Bentinck and Mornington Islands with Peter Aitken, a museum scientist, and spent two months undertaking medical, ethnological and other natural history research. This expedition was the first of two to the region in the 1960s: the second took place in 1963 (for details see Tindale's field journal: 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963', AA 338/1/25 ).

The contents descriptions given below were taken from Tindale's handwritten annotations on the tape boxes, and are therefore brief. Fuller details of the recordings are found in the S. A. Museum Speech and Sound Collections register (relevant 'AS' reference numbers are listed below) and in the pages of Tindale's expedition field journal: 'Visit to Bentinck and Mornington Islands, Queensland by Norman B. Tindale. 1960' (AA 338/1/23; especially pages 37-45; 271-273; 299-301; 321-329).

The Mornington Island series includes the following magnetic tapes:
AA 338/11/17/
Reel 1

• 'Lardiil songs of mourning', 7 May 1960
  [CD 1. Tracks 1-5. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Seris I; AS470-473]
  
  

Reel 2
'Songs by Jacko', Lardiil tribe, 21 May 1960

• Song 1. Rain song
  [CD 2. Track 1. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS484]
  
  
• Song 2. Fighting song
  [CD 2. Track 2. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS485]
  
  
• Song 3. Fish song
  [CD 2. Track 3. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS486]
  
  
• Song 4. Woman sings to man
  This item is restricted
  [CD 2. Track 4. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS487]
  
  
• Song 5. Man replies to woman
  This item is restricted
  [CD 2. Track 5. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS488]
  
  
• Song 6. Scolding song
  [CD 2. Track 6. Tape No. 9607; TT63; Morn. I. Ser.II; AS489]
  
  

Reel 3

• 'Story of Toato [rainbow] and Bultuku' with English translation, 27 May 1960
  This item is restricted
  [CD 3. Tracks 1-6. Tape No. 9608; TT64; Morn. I. Ser.III; AS489.1-489.2]
  
  

Reel 4

• 'Continuation of songs of Toato series', 30 May 1960
  This item is restricted
  [CD 4. Track 1. Tape No. 9608; TT64; Morn. I. Ser.IV; AS489.2]
  
  
• 'Hunting song from Sydney Island' with English translation
  [CD 4. Tracks 2-3. Tape No. 9608; TT64; Morn. I. Ser.IV; AS489.3]
  
  

Reel 5

• 'Songs and story of the Seven Sisters star Kurinja, Lardiil Tribe', 2 June 1960 with English translation
  [CD 5. Tracks 1-2. Tape No. 9609; TT65; Morn. I. Ser.V; AS490]
  
  
• 'Mosquito song' with English translation
  [CD 5. Tracks 3-4. Tape No. 9609; TT65; Morn. I. Ser.V; AS491]
  
  

Reel 7

• 'Toato or Rainbow Dance', 4 June 1960
  This item is restricted
  [CD 6. Tracks 1-5. Tape No. 9609; TT65; Morn. I. Ser.VII; AS491.1]
  
  

Reel 8

• '2nd part of general songs & background of Toato dance', 4 June 1960
  This item is restricted
  [CD 7. Tracks 1-5. Tape No. 9609 & TT65; Tape No. 9610; TT 66; Morn. I. Ser.VIII; AS491.1]
  
  

Reel 6 has been missing since at least 1974, according to a note left with the tapes by Tindale.

Note that some songs have accompaying explanations in English and that a series of initiation songs not recorded on tape are found transcribed in Tindale's field journal at pages 327-329 (AA 338/1/23).

Tindale Tribes: Lardiil.