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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000975b.htm person Bates Daisy May CBE AACR2 O'Dwyer, Daisy May 16 October 1863 18 April 1951 Place of Birth Tipperary, Ireland Place of Death Prospect, South Australia, Australia Anthropologist Daisy Bates worked for many years as a welfare worker amongst the Aboriginal tribes of Western Australia and through this she built up an extensive anthropological knowledge of Aboriginal cultures which she recorded in numerous articles and her autobiography. The Aboriginals gave her the affectionate name of "Kabbarli", meaning grandmotherly person. Her place in Australian folk-lore has been formalised by the opera, "The young Kabbarlie", written by Lady Casey to music by Margaret Sutherland. 1884 1884 Life event - Arrived in Australia 1884 1885 Career position - Governess at Berry, New South Wales 1894 1899 Career position - Study of journalism on the Review of Reviews, London 1899 1900 Career position - Trappist mission to Beagle Bay in the north of Broome 1904 1904 Career position - Appointed by the Western Australian Government to research the tribes of the State 1910 1910 Career position - Member of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (q.v.) to study the social anthropology of Aboriginals of the north-west 1912 1914 Career position - Camped at Eucla 1915 1918 Career position - Camped at Eucla 1918 1934 Career position - Aboriginal welfare work at Ooldea 1934 1934 Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 1935 1940 Career position - Wrote her autobiography My natives and I, in a tent at Pyap 1941 1945 Career position - Lived in Wynbring, east of Ooldea 1945 1951 Career position - Lived in Adelaide Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881 - 1955)

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 'Bates, Daisy May', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bates, Daisy May Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Daisy May Bates, 1859-1951 Mulvaney, D. J. Daisy May Bates, 1859-1951 Oxford Oxford University Press 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Edited Book: Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history Chapman, Valerie C; Read, Peter Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history St Leonards, New South Wales Allen & Unwin 1996 Book Section: Bates, Daisy May (1863-1951), welfare worker among Aboriginals and anthropologist Wright, R. V. S. Bates, Daisy May (1863-1951), welfare worker among Aboriginals and anthropologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 208-209 Book: Daisy Bates in the Desert Blackburn, Julia Daisy Bates in the Desert London Secker and Warburg 1994 Book: Daisy Bates: "the Great White Queen of the Never Never" Salter, Elizabeth Daisy Bates: "the Great White Queen of the Never Never" Sydney Angus & Robertson 1971 Book Section: "Devoted Service to a Dying Race"?: Daisy Bates and the Passing of the Aborigines Standish, Ann "Devoted Service to a Dying Race"?: Daisy Bates and the <span style="font-style:italic">Passing of the Aborigines</span> Melbourne Department of History, University of Melbourne 1999 Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus Book Section: Daisy Bates: Legend and Reality White, Isobel Daisy Bates: Legend and Reality Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1993 First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology Julie Marcus Book: The Passing of the Aborigines: a Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia Bates, Daisy The Passing of the Aborigines: a Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia London Murray 1938 Book: The Native Tribes of Western Australia Bates, Daisy; edited by Isobel White The Native Tribes of Western Australia Canberra National Library of Australia 1985 Journal Article: Aborigines of the west coast of South Australia : vocabularies and ethnographic notes Bates, Daisy M. Aborigines of the west coast of South Australia : vocabularies and ethnographic notes 1918 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 42 152-67 Book: Nullabor Aboriginal vocabularies and ethnographic notes Bates, Daisy Nullabor Aboriginal vocabularies and ethnographic notes Carlisle, W.A. Hesperian Press 2019 Review: Historical Records of Australian Science Coote, Anne 2022 Historical Records of Australian Science 33 1 73 Book: Desert queen: the many lives of Daisy Bates De Vries, Susanna Desert queen: the many lives of Daisy Bates Pymble, N.S.W. HarperCollins 2008 Book: Daisy Bates: grand dame of the desert Reece, Bob Daisy Bates: grand dame of the desert Canberra National Library of Australia 2007 Book: Kabbarli: a personal memoir Daisy Bates Hill, Ernestine Kabbarli: a personal memoir Daisy Bates Sydney Angus & Robertson 1973 Resource Section: Daisy Bates: dubious leadership Standish, Ann Daisy Bates: dubious leadership [Parkville. Vic.] eSchoarship Research Centre 2012 Seizing the initiative: Australian women leaders in politics, workplaces and communities in Francis, Rosemary; Grimshaw, Patricia; and Standish, Ann Journal Article: Daisy Bates' documentations of Kimberley languages McGregor, William Daisy Bates' documentations of Kimberley languages 2012 Language and history 55 2 79-101 Book: Into the loneliness: the unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates Hogan, Eleanor Into the loneliness: the unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates Sydney NewSouth Publishing 2021 Journal Article: Unravelling the Yamaji imaginings of Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates Barrington, Robin Unravelling the Yamaji imaginings of Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates 2015 Aboriginal history 39 26-61 Review: Aboriginal history Brock, Peggy 2021 Aboriginal history 45 205-8 Journal Article: The Rise and Fall of Daisy O'Dwyer Hiatt, L. The Rise and Fall of Daisy O'Dwyer 2006 Australian Aboriginal Studies 2 111-115 Review: Australian historical studies Gall, Adam 2022 Australian historical studies 53 2 358-9 Book Section: Daisy Bates in the digital world Thieberger, Nick Daisy Bates in the digital world London EL Publishing 2017 Language, land and song: studies in honour of Luise Hercus Austin, Peter K., Koch, Harold and Simpson, Jane 102-14 Book: First in their field: women and Australian anthropology Marcus, Julie First in their field: women and Australian anthropology Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1989 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 1944 Alexander, John A. Who's who in Australia 1944 12th Melbourne, Victoria The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd 1944 Journal Article: The Aboriginal Australian cosmic landscape, part 2: plant connections with the skyworld Clarke, Philip A. The Aboriginal Australian cosmic landscape, part 2: plant connections with the skyworld 2015 Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 18 1 23-37 Journal Article: Aboriginal Astronomical Traditions From Ooldea, South Australia, Part 1: Nyeerund and "The Orion Story" Leaman, Trevor M.; and Hamacher, Duane W. Aboriginal Astronomical Traditions From Ooldea, South Australia, Part 1: Nyeerund and "The Orion Story" 2014 Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 17 2 180-94 Book Section: "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Maroske, Sara "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 13-34 Daisy May Bates - Records JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia Daisy May Bates - Records ACC 1212A Transcripts of collected papers in the National Library of Australia, including anthropological notes and vocabularies of the native language (with card index of contents). Daisy May Bates - Records JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia Daisy May Bates - Records ACC 856A 1922 - 1935 Correspondence with L. Glauert concerning specimens while at Ooldea 1922-1935. Daisy May Bates - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Daisy May Bates - Records MS 7987 1918 - 1946 120 letters to W.P. Hurst 1918-46, and other papers dealing with her work with Australian Aborigines. 0.125 m, 120 letters Daisy May Bates - Records South Australian Museum Archives Daisy May Bates - Records AA23 1900 - 1951 General correspondence, mostly to the South Australian Museum (12 items, Series 1); manuscripts titled 'Cannibalism and Aborigines', 'Inma or tjurungas from Ooldea' (3 items, Series 2); notes and labels relating to ethnographic collection held by the South Australian Museum (5 items, Series 3); native vocabulary (Series 4); newspaper cuttings (1 item, Series 5); glass plate negative (1 item, Series 6); copy negative and print (1 item, Series 7); overall dates c1900-51 [23 items, AA23]. Photographs Daisy May Bates - Records Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland Daisy May Bates - Records 1930 - 1951 Correspondence with A.J. Vogan c1930-51. Daisy May Bates - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Daisy May Bates - Records 1900 - 1951 Correspondence with Georgina King, W.H. Gill, J.F. Thomas, W.H. Ifould and N. Campbell c1900-51. Daisy May Bates - Records Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Daisy May Bates - Records SR 572.994 B32t 1900 - 1951 Correspondence with Mrs I.E. Sior, Mary Lange, Winifred Howie, Mr and Mrs Micken, Sir Charles Barclay-Harvey c1900-51. Daisy May Bates - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Daisy May Bates - Records PRG 878 1900 - 1950 93 letters to Miss Winifred Howie, Adelaide. 19 letters to Mr and Mrs Micken. Overall dates c1900-51. 0.1 m Daisy May Bates - Records JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia Daisy May Bates - Records ACC 1023 1904 - 1911 Material in C.S.O. File 4875/10 volume 1, personal and composite file including C.S.O., Aborigines and Statistician's Office files 1904-11. Daisy May Bates - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Daisy May Bates - Records MS 9290 1905 - 1913 Letters to John Mathew c1905-13. 0.01 m Daisy May Bates - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Daisy May Bates - Records MN 1406 1900 - 1951 A large collection of diaries, notebooks and fragments of paper arranged under the following headings: origin, geographical distribution, social organisation, initiation ceremonies, totems, religious beliefs and superstitions, myths and legends, food, weapons, art, crafts, diseases, remedies, death and burial, dances, songs, language, grammar and vocabularies, general notes on Aborigines, notebook - various topics, annotated notebooks - scheme of classification, collection of published articles, correspondence, notes, newspaper articles, photographs, records of Native Affairs, maps c1900-51 [8.5 m, MS 365]. Inwards correspondence c1900-1951 [23 items, MS 2300]. Photographs of Daisy Bates are held in the Pictorial Collection. Oral history interview (TRC 160). 8.5 m Artwork, Audio, Photographs