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TINDALE GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION

Barambah rugby league team, 1930s, Image No. 151285

Children at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, ca. 1905, Image No. 112322

Hospital at Woorabinda, 1953, Image No. 182695

Home Secretary J.C. Peterson visiting Yarrabah Mission, 1931, Image No.166105

Entrance to the residential quarters on Palm Island, 1932, Image No. APA-092-0001-0004

In 1928, Norman Tindale, an anthropologist and entomologist with the South Australian Museum, began visiting Aboriginal people living on missions and government stations. By the end of the 1960s he had photographed Aboriginal people, collected cultural material and recorded a significant number of family trees (genealogies). The Tindale Collection is held at the South Australian Museum.

The State Library of Queensland has copies of genealogical information and photographs from the Tindale Collection for the Queensland Aboriginal communities of Yarrabah, Cherbourg, Mona Mona, Palm Island, Woorabinda, Bentinck Island, Doomadgee and Mornington Island, as well as two northern New South Wales communities at Boggabilla and Woodenbong.

The Tindale Genealogical Collection is a useful resource for Aboriginal people with family connections to these missions.

Access is restricted to family members and can be arranged by contacting the John Oxley Library. An alphabetical index has been created with the surnames of people listed within these sheets.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material and information accessed on this site may be culturally sensitive for some individuals and communities. Refer to the State Library of Queensland's Protocols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections for further information.

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Last updated: 16th November 2011

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