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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Supplementary to 'Notes on the Kaurna or Adelaide Tribe and the natives of Yorke Peninsula and the Middle North of South Australia by Norman B. Tindale. 1935-' (AA 338/1/35)

This item includes the following:

  • typescript copies of extracts from an illustrated album on members of the Murray tribe prepared in 1870 or 1871 and sent to England and presented to Mr AG Morrison, the Adelaide Deputy Town Clerk, by Mr Ernest Gall in 1922

  • typescript and handwritten notes on the 'supposed Aboriginal arrangement of pebbles at Peglers Creek South Australia' by CP Mountford (see AA 228) and P Stapleton, read in 1927

  • newspaper clippings

  • reprint 'South Australian Aborigines: The vocabulary of the Adelaide Tribe', read by John Philip Gell

  • a typescript copy of 'The Aborigines' by John MacPherson

  • a typescript copy of 'Tribal Customs of Yorke's Peninsula by Marion Bay' (J Howard Johnson, see AA 160) dated 1922

  • short vocabularies

  • place names

  • typescript extracts from 'The South Australian Register' on the 'corroboree', dated 1844

  • a typescript extract of a letter from Daisy Bates (see AA 23) on Ivaritji, dated 1916

  • a typescript copy of 'The Vocabulary of the Adelaide Tribe' by John Philip Gell, dated 1842

  • genealogies

  • handwritten 'Memories of the extinct tribe of Cowandilla natives' by Thomas Day, dated 1902

  • a typescript copy of correspondence between C. W. Schòrmann, George French Angas (see AA 8) and Christian Gottleb Teichelmann date 1839 and 1840

  • typescript and copies of an 'Observer' article on a murder near Kapunda dated 1861

  • a copy of 'The Adjahdurah tribe of Aborigines on Yorke's Peninsula: some of their early customs and traditions' by TM Sutton, read 1887

  • handwritten notes on 'Wyatt's Adelaide Tribe Soc. Terms'

  • 1913 article on 'Pootpobberrie - An Aboriginal legend' by CHH

  • a typescript copy of 'A Kaurna Legend' by Howard Groome

  • a 1927 typescript copy of an 'Advertiser' article on 'The Adelaide Tribe' and 'The Adelaide Tribe - A member still survives - Princess Amelia Walker'

Creator: Dr Norman Barnett Tindale
Control: AA 338/2/68
Date Range:  1839  -  1952
Quantity:  6cm,   1   foolscap Albox folder
Series:  AA338/02
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