South Australian Museum Collection

The South Australian museum contains a series of journal, maps, photographs and other archival material related to First Nations groups around Australia including the Yuin group. The collection can be searched online but many of the photographs have not been digitised.

Specific collections within the South Australian Museum that reference Yuin people include items catalogued by language groups from the area. The language groups are taken from a list of Australian Aboriginal language groups, described by Norman Barnett Tindale as ‘tribes’, in Part II of his 1974 publication ‘Aboriginal Tribes of Australia -Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names’. Please be aware that this Catalog represents Tindale’s attempt to map Aboriginal language groups at the time of colonisation. It is not intended to represent contemporary relationships to land.

• Djiringanj (NSW)
• Thaua (NSW) 
• Walbanga (NSW)

The South Australian Museum Archives contains information gathered by the Board for Anthropological Research at Wallaga Lakes between 1938-1939 during the Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition. This information may be accessed for family history research in consultation with the Family History Manager. For more information, please visit the website here.

Some images and information from the South Australian museum Archives Board for Anthropological Research Collection (AA346) were used in the development of the publication BIAMANGA and GULAGA: Aboriginal Cultural Association with Biamanga and Gulaga National Parks by researchers at the University of Canberra.