The materials in this item, 17 cassettes, were considered by Norman B Tindale to be part of his 'personal and study series' of tapes. They arrived at the South Australian Museum after Tindale's death in 1993 in a shoebox labelled 'N B Tindale: Cassette Tape Collection'. Most of the cassettes (numbered 1-17 by Tindale) relate to entomology.

These tapes have not been transferred to digital format.

The following contents descriptions are drawn from annotations by Tindale on the cassette covers.
AA 338/11/37/

1. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (1 of 9)
   
   
2. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (2 of 9)
   
   
3. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (3 of 9)
   
   
4. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (4 of 9)
   
   
5. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 30 minute cassette (5 of 9)
   
   
6. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (6 of 9)
   
   
7. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (7 of 9)
   
   
8. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (8 of 9)
   
   
9. Entomology, Lepidopterists' Annual Meeting, Boulder 22-24 July 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (9 of 9)
   
   
10. '14 Aug 77, Japanese News; Mt Usu erupts; Memorial service to Hiroshima; episode of historical drama: Choshu & secret mission to London 1864', 1 x 60 minute cassette
    
    
11. 'National Geog[raphic] Soc[iety], account of Dr Leakey's life and fossil man findings. Taped 14 Jan 1978. Part of an interview with Dr Leakey which ends in mid sentence'. 1 x 60 min cassette
    
    
12. 'Pitjandjara and other Aboriginal songs sung by N B Tindale to illustrate songs. The first, Wardaruka mindjarei, was learned in the Mann Ranges 1933 (see Tindale Mann Range Journal pp. 68, 69, 181 and 303 of June 1933. Then follows two songs not immediately identified of which the texts are in one or other of my journals and identifiable'; 9 April 1978. 1 x 60 min cassette
    
    
13. 'Discussion by N B Tindale with Allen Keast in preparation for Anthropology section of Biogeography & Ecology of Australia, in prep. [illegible] 1978-79'; recorded 23 April 1978. 1 x 120 min cassette
    
    
14. 'Xerces Society 5th Annual meeting, Oakland, Cal.'; 21 May 1978. Relates to butterflies and ecology in places such as New Guinea and California. 1 x 90 minute cassette (1 of 2)
    
    
15. 'Xerces Society 5th Annual meeting, Oakland, Cal.'; 21 May 1978. Relates to butterflies and ecology in places such as New Guinea and California. 1 x 90 minute cassette (2 of 2)
    
    
16. Entomological Society of Victoria's Jubilee Dinner, 22 April, 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (1 of 2)
    
    
17. Entomological Society of Victoria's Jubilee Dinner, 22 April, 1977. 1 x 60 minute cassette (2 of 2)