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Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan. Norman attended the American School in Japan, where his closest friend was Gordon Bowles, a Quaker [2] who, like him, later became an anthropologist.
Norman Barnett Tindale (1900–1993), anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist, and linguist, was born on 12 October 1900 in Perth, eldest of four sons of English-born James Hepburn Tindale, Salvation Army officer, and his South Australian-born wife, Mary Jane, née Kingston. In 1907 the family travelled to Tokyo, Japan, where James took up ...
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Nov 18, 1993 · Died : 18 November, 1993. Norman Barnett Tindale was born in Perth, Australia, on 12 October 1900. James Tindale, his father, moved the family to Tokyo, Japan in 1907 to continue his work as an accountant with the Salvation Army. Tindale's intense anthropological interest in other cultures can be traced partly to his formative Japanese experiences.
Tindale met Milerum and a long friendship developed. As an old man Milerum worked with Tindale during the 30s, making basketry and weapons and explaining his culture and traditions to museum visitors. Tindale's great unfinished project was Milerum's biography. This was intended, like the Berndts' study of the Lower Murray Yaraldi (published by
Norman Barnett Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 12th October 1900, the son of Salvation Army accountant James Hepburn Tindale and his missionary wife Mary Jane (née Barnett). In 1907 his parents’ work took them to Tokyo, Japan, and the family lived there for eight years. As well as learning Japanese, German and French ...
Norman Tindale and his colleague Professor Joseph Birdsell carried out what has been called one of the greatest systematic genealogical surveys conducted on any indigenous population anywhere in the world. They conducted the survey as part of the joint Harvard-Adelaide Universities' Anthropological Expedition of 1938-39.
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Died: 19 November 1993 in Palo Alto, California. Active: Tindale carried out intermittent, though intensive, forays as an ethnographic collector in the Wet Tropics from the 1920s to the 1960s. He also collected extensively throughout Australia. Background biography: Norman Tindale was a colossus of Australian museum ethnography.
