What is Norman Tindale?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Norman Tindale | image = Tindale.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Tindale holding a child from Monamona Mission in Queensland, 1938 | birth_date = 12 October 1900 | birth_place = [[Perth, Western Australia]] | death_date = {{death-date and age|19 November 1993|12 October 1900}} | death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]] | citizenship = Australian | nationality = Australian | fields = [[Anthropology]], [[archaeology]], [[ethnology]] | workplaces = | alma_mater = [[University of Adelaide]] | known_for = | awards = }} '''Norman Barnett Tindale''' [[Order of Australia|AO]] (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an [[Australia]]n [[anthropologist]], [[archaeologist]] and [[ethnologist]].<ref name=ANUobit>{{Cite web |url=http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/nbt/obituary.html |title=Norman B Tindale: 12 October 1900 - 19 November 1993 |year=1995 |first=Philip |last=Jones |publisher=[[Australian National University]]}}</ref> He worked for the [[South Australian Museum]] for almost 50 years. He is best known for his work [[Cartography|mapping]] the various cultural groupings of [[Indigenous Australians]]. He was born in [[Perth, Western Australia]]. His family moved to [[Tokyo]] in 1907, when he was a young boy. Norman was educated at the [[American School in Japan]].<ref>[http://www.asij.ac.jp/japan/asij_authors/s_z/tindale1.htm Tindale links] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030930/http://www.asij.ac.jp/japan/asij_authors/s_z/tindale1.htm |date=2012-02-19 }}, American School in Japan</ref> The family returned to Perth in 1915, and then moved to [[Adelaide]] in 1917. Tindale got a job at the [[State Library of South Australia|Adelaide Public Library]]. In January 1919, he got a job at the South Australian Museum as entomologist's assistant to [[Arthur Mills Lea]].<ref>E. G. Matthews, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.a