Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951

Daisy May Bates was a social worker and anthropologist who lived with the Aborigines for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and customs.

From the description of Letters. 1901-1951. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225689638

Social worker among the Australian Aborigines. Author of The Passing of the Aborigines (1938).

From the description of Letters. 1918-1946. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225766793

Daisy Bates was social worker among the Australian Aborigines and was author of The passing of the Aborigines, 1938.

From the description of Letters to John Mathew. ca. 1905-1913. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222927383

Daisy May Bates was a social worker and anthropologist who lived with Aboriginal people for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and customs.

From the description of Correspondence of Daisy Bates, 1941, 1943 [manuscript]. 1941, 1943. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223759147

The drawing book was presented in 1907 to Sir Frederick Bedford, Govenor of Western Australia (1903-1909) by Daisy Bates, social worker and anthropologist who lived with the Aborigines for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and customs.

From the description of Papers, 1907 [manuscript]. 1907. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 756832433

Daisy May Bates, whose birthdate has only recently been verified by research in Ireland (it was previously believed to be 1863) was a social worker and anthropologist who lived with the Aborigines for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and customs.

From the description of Papers of Daisy Bates. 1900-1940. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225712199

In 1938 this was edited and published as : The passing of the aborigines.

From the description of My natives and I [manuscript] : life story of Daisy M. Bates. [1936] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 504703690

Anthropologist and social worker who lived with the Aborigines in South Australia and Western Australia for more than thirty years and wrote about their language and customs.

From the description of Papers. 1907-1940. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222113645

Anthropologist.

Daisy May Bates was born on 16 October 1863 in Tipperary, Ireland, the daughter of James Edward O'Dwyer and Marguarette Hunt. Raised in England, she migrated to Australia in 1884 and lived briefly in Townsville before obtaining employment as a governess at Berry, N.S.W. In 1884 she met and married Edwin ("Breaker") Morant. On February 1885 she (probably bigamously) married Jack Bates, a cattleman, and they had a son Arnold in 1896. For five years from 1894, Bates lived in London working as a journalist on the Review of Reviews. Bates returned to Australia in 1899, investigating ill-treatment of Aborigines for the London Times. Bates's first contact with Aboriginal people was at the Trappist mission at Beagle Bay, north of Broome. In 1901 she temporarily rejoined her husband on the cattle station at Roebuck Plains, where tribes from the Broome district were camped. She began collecting vocabularies and observed sacred and ritual life. In 1904, Bates was appointed by the Western Australian Government to research the tribes of the State. Bates concentrated at first on the Bibbulmun tribe of the Maamba reserve in the south west where she recorded data on language, myth, religion and kinship. By 1910, Bates had completed a substantial manuscript on the Aborigines. Its publication was delayed by the arrival of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to study the social anthropology of Aborigines of the north-west. Bates became interested in Aboriginal welfare after observing the fate of Aborigines exiled on the islands of Bernier and Dorre. In 1912 she camped at Eucla (S.A.) amongst the remnants of the Mirning tribe on the southern fringe of the Nullarbor Plain and in 1914 attended meetings of the anthropological section of the British Association for the advancement of Science. In 1915 she returned to the Mirning's area, near Yalata. In 1918 she moved to Ooldea (S.A.) where she continued her welfare work. She was appointed C.B.E. in 1934. Throughout her life, Bates wrote numerous newspapers articles on Aboriginal life and was able to influence government in improving conditions for Aboriginal people. Her autobiography, The passing of the Aborigines, was published in 1938. In 1945 Bates moved to Adelaide where she later died at Prospect on 18 April 1951.000000000000000.

From the description of [Papers]. 1900-1947. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224031271

Daisy Bates lived from 1912 to 1945 amongst the Aboriginal peoples of South Australia, firstly at Eucla on the edge of the Nullabor Plain, and then at Ooldea. Initially her interest in Aboriginal people was anthropological, and she was appointed by the Western Australian government from 1904 to 1912 to research the tribes of the state. But this interest broadened to a concern for the welfare of the peoples with whom she lived, and she wrote many articles about them. Some of her views were very controversial.

From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan. 1928. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224473156

From the description of Letter, 1928 Dec. 12 [manuscript] : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan. 1928. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62539075

From the description of Letter, 1928 Nov. 10 [manuscript] : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan. 1928. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62539072

From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan. 1928. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224473095