This series contains restricted material.

This item consists of magnetic tape recordings of restricted ceremonies, songs, narratives, and discussions on social structure. They were made by Norman B Tindale in 1963 during a Board for Anthropological Research expedition to the Rawlinson Range in Western Australia. Recordings were also made at Mount Davies and Cave Hill in neighbouring South Australia.

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: 'Journal of Visit to the Rawlinson Range area in the Great Western Desert by Norman B. Tindale. 24 October - 25 November 1963', AA 338/1/26.

Note that the abbreviation 'AN' in the list below, which identifies the Rawlinson Range expedition with the Board for Anthropological Research, was not always used by Tindale.

The Rawlinson Range series includes the following magnetic tapes:
AA 338/11/23/
Reel 1 (AN 1- AN 2)

• Discussion by I:parnka Parutjarta tjukurupa and Tommy Dodd on the role of Njiŋa or Ice people
  [CD 1. Tracks 1-6. Tape No. 9655. TT112 & Tape No. 9656; TT113; RR 1(AN 1); AS650]
  
  
• Discussion of the conversion of southern people to the 4 class system, 31 October 1963. This is the first mention of the Nakako, people near Bell Rock Range
  [CD 1. Tracks 6-7. Tape No. 9656; TT113; RR 1(AN 1); AS651]
  
  
• Record of a women's quarrel at Kudjuntari
  [CD 1. Tracks 8-10. Tape No. 9656; TT113; RR 2(AN 2); AS652]
  
  
• Parutjarta tjukurupa speaks of the Koŋka Walilja of Keiwarriŋa (rat totem)
  [CD 1. Track 10. Tape No. 9656; TT113; RR 2(AN 2); AS653]
  
  
• Tiŋari from the place Tendjindjitjarana sung by Ngadadjara men, 3 November 1963
  [CD 1. Track 11. Tape No. 9656; TT113; RR 2(AN 2); AS655]
  
  

Reel 2 (AN 3-AN 4)

• Second part of the song cycle of Tendjindjitjarana Tiŋari, Ngadadjara
  [CD 2. Tracks 1-9. Tape No. 9657; TT114; RR 2(AN 3) & RR 3(AN 4); AS655.1 & 655.2]
  
  

Reel 3 (AN 5-AN 6)

• Third part of the Tendjindjitjarana Tiŋari, Ngadadjara song cycle
  [CD 3. Tracks 1-13. Tape No. 9658; TT115; (RR 3(AN 5) & RR 3(AN 6); AS655.3]
  
  
• Ray, a Ngadadjara man, tells the story of his first encounter with 'white men', possibly Michael Terry in 1931, and meeting with NB Tindale and the expedition party at Warburton Range, August 1935
  [CD 3. Tracks 14-15. Tape No. 9659; TT116; RR 3(AN 6); AS656]
  
  

Reel 5 (AN 7)

• 'Malutjukur of Kolbirba initiation series', Kudjuntari, 4 November 1963
  [CD 4. Tracks 1-8. Tape No. 9659; TT116 & Tape No. 9660; TT117; RR 5(AN 7); AS657]
  
  

Reel 6 (RR 6)

• Second part of the 'Malutjukur of Kolbirba Initiation series', 4 November 1963
  [CD 5. Tracks 1-9. Tape No. 9660; TT117 & Tape No. 9661; TT118; RR 6; AS657.1]
  
  

Reel 7 (RR 7)

• Final part of the Malu tjukur of Kolbirba
  [CD 6. Tracks 1-10. Tape No. 9661; TT118 & Tape No. 9662; TT119; RR 7; AS 657.2]
  
  
• Julanja tjukurupa of Karalunja story told by Mickey in Kudjuntari, 4-5 November 1963
  [CD 6. Tracks 11-13. Tape No. 9662; TT119 & Tape No. 9663; TT120; RR 7; AS 658]
  
  

Reel 8 (RR 8)

• Continuation of the 'story of Julanja tjukurupa of Karalunja', 'followed by discussion on source of kandi stone near Gill Pinnacle & totems along the range from W to east' and 'Tommy Dodd's short account of the Two Malu of Mt Davies' in English
  [CD 7. Tracks 1-6. Tape No. 9663; TT120; RR 8; AS659]
  
  
• Story of the Ice men, ninga, told by Mickey, Nadadjara, 6 November 1963
  [CD 7. Tracks 7-9. Tape No. 9663; TT120 & Tape No. 9664; TT121; RR 8; AS660]
  
  

Reel 9 (RR 9)

• Continuation of the Ice men, ninga story, told by Mickey, discussion and comments by Tommy Dodd in English, 6 November 1963
  [CD 8. Tracks 1-5. Tape No. 9664; TT121 & Tape No. 9665; TT122; RR 9; AS660.1]
  
  
• 'Warumala tjukurupa tiŋari' song, 7 November 1963
  [CD 8. Track 7. Tape No. 9665; TT122; RR 9; AS661]
  
  

Reel 10 (RR 10)

• Warumala tjukurupa tiŋari song continued
  [CD 9. Tracks 1-3. Tape No. 9665; TT122; RR 10; AS661]
  
  
• 'Jaŋkundjara (Pibiridjara) Rain Ceremony of Malu' (kangaroo) sung by Tommy Dodd
  [CD 9. Tracks 4-8. Tape No. 9665; TT122 & Tape No. 9666; TT123; RR 10; AS662]
  
  

Reel 11 (RR 11)

• 'Malu rain ceremony continued'
  [CD 10. Tracks 1-3. Tape No. 9666; TT123; RR 11; AS662]
  
  
• Mice dreaming and Malu women story
  [CD 10. Tracks 3-5. Tape No. 9667; TT124; RR 11; AS663]
  
  
• 'Walawuru totem of Kudjuntari and njulu stones' description, 7 November 1963
  [CD 10. Track 6. Tape No. 9667; TT124; RR 11; AS664]
  
  

Reel 12 (RR 12)

• 'the Mt Davies version of the Kalaia tjukurupa story (parallel to the Jubai version of 1957)'
  [CD 11. Tracks 1-12. Tape No. 9668; TT125 & Tape No. 9669; TT126; RR 12; AS676]
  
  

Reel 13 (RR 13)

• 'end of the Mt Davies version of the Kalaia tjukurupa story & song'
  [CD 12. Tracks 1-3. Tape No. 9669; TT126; RR 13; AS676]
  
  
• 'the Keiba tjukurr song series' that starts in Waljuna and travels aa far as the Nullarbor Plain, 12 November 1963
  [CD 12. Tracks 4-5. Tape No. 9669; TT126; RR 13; AS677]
  
  
• 'Keibara (Turkey) tjukurupa song; stealing of fire, Tommy Dodd is commentator', 12 November 1963]
  [CD 12. Tracks 6-7. Tape No. 9670; TT127; RR 13; AS678]
  
  

Reel 14 (RR 14)

• 'Keibara song cycle' continued, 14 November 1963 (Tindale notes: 'machine was misbehaving owing to a faulty switch connection & some parts are out of tune and slow').
  [CD 13. Tracks 1-7. Tape No. 9670; TT127 & Tape No. 9671; TT128; RR 14; AS679]
  
  

Reel 15 (RR 15)

• Mt Davies, SA. Evening camp scene, a laka; odd notes of beginning of a turlku, Cave Hill SA, 18 November 1963
  [CD 14. Tracks 1-2. Tape No. 9671; TT128; RR 15]
  
  
• Description by Billy Kai:bibi of the travels of the Jaŋkundjadjara Kuŋgaraŋkalpa (Pleiades) between Henbury and Algara with English comments, 20 November 1963
  [CD 14. Tracks 3-5. Tape No. 9671; TT128 & Tape No. 9672; TT129; RR 15; AS680]
  
  

Tindale Tribes: Nakako; Ngadadjara; Jangkundjara; Pitjandjara.