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Bates, Daisy May (1863 - 1951)

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Anthropologist

Born: 16 October 1863 Tipperary, Ireland. Died: 18 April 1951 Prospect, South Australia, Australia.

Daisy May 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", witten by Lady Casey to music by Margaret Sutherland.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1884 Arrived in Australia
1884 - 1885 Governess at Berry, New South Wales
1894 - 1899 Study of journalism on the Review of Reviews, London
1899 - 1900 Trappist mission to Beagle Bay in the north of Broome
1904 Appointed by the Western Australian Government to research the tribes of the State
1910 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 Camped at Eucla
1915 - 1918 Camped at Eucla
1918 - 1934 Aboriginal welfare work at Ooldea
1934 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1935 - 1940 Wrote her autobiography My natives and I, in a tent at Pyap
1941 - 1945 Lived in Wynbring, east of Ooldea
1945 - 1951 Lived in Adelaide

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 15 September 2004

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