This item contains 55 cards (each measuring 41.0x28.0 cm) printed on both sides. On one side is printed a table for entering various cranial measurements. The reverse side is printed with fields for entering information about the cranial specimen and contains a space for descriptive notes. The cards record measurements of various crania formerly held in the South Australian Museum collection.

Twenty-two of the cards were filled out between December 1929, and February 1931, by LA McLean and JH Gray, who was the physical anthropologist on a number of Board for Anthropological Research (BAR) expeditions.

Thirteen of the cards contain cranial measurements but have no data entered into the fields relating to the identity of the specimen measured or who recorded the measurements. Five of these cards contain annotations written in pencil by Frank Fenner.

Twenty of the cards are blank.