Norman b. tindale biography
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Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett TindaleAO (12 October – 19 November ) was an Australiananthropologist, archaeologist and ethnologist.[1] He worked for the South Australian Museum for almost 50 years.
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He is best known for his work mapping the various cultural groupings of Indigenous Australians.
He was born in Perth, Western Australia. His family moved to Tokyo in , when he was a young boy. Norman was educated at the American School in Japan.[2] The family returned to Perth in , and then moved to Adelaide in Tindale got a job at the Adelaide Public Library.
In January , he got a job at the South Australian Museum as entomologist's assistant to Arthur Mills Lea.[3] He had already published thirty-one papers on entomological, ornithological and anthropological subjects before receiving his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Adelaide in March [1]
Tindale began mapping the cultural groupings of Indigenous Australians early in his