What was Norman Tindale's profession?
Q: What was Norman Tindale's profession?
A: Norman Tindale was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist and ethnologist.
Q: Where was he born?
A: He was born in Perth, Western Australia.
Q: When did his family move to Tokyo?
A: His family moved to Tokyo in 1907 when he was a young boy.
Q: What job did he get at the South Australian Museum?
A: He got a job at the South Australian Museum as entomologist's assistant to Arthur Mills Lea.
Q: How many papers had he published before receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Adelaide?
A: 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 1933.
Q: What sparked Norman Tindale's interest in mapping cultural groupings of Indigenous Australians?
A: His interest in this began during a research trip to Groote Eylandt in 1921–1922 where an Anindilyakwa man gave him detailed descriptions of which land belonged to his family and which land did not.
Q: Where did Norman Tindale live after his retirement from the South Australian Museum?
A: After his retirement from the South Australian Museum, Tindale began teaching at the University of Colorado and lived there until his death, aged 93, in Palo Alto, California.
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