Series 14: Notebooks
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The Barr Smith Library recognises the moral rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the owners of their knowledge. To this end, Special Collections is digitising the Daisy Bates Papers in our collections to enhance access for people who cannot travel to Adelaide. Please be aware that this site may contain sensitive information, including the names and images of people who have passed away and which may sadden and distress some Aboriginal people. This site may also contain language and terms used by an author that reflect an inappropriate attitude due to the historical context in which these records were created.
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Item Restricted Series 14, 13 - Notes compiled at Guildford 8/6/1912 (names, stories, notes on beliefs, dialect, rain songs of the Talainji people, genealogies)(2015-01-15) Bates, DaisyNotes compiled at Guildford 8/6/12 – list of tribes in Kimberley districts, Burketown people’s classifications, Southwest vocabulary, social organisation, totems, Rain songs of the Talainji people, genealogy of Jitabul from Esperance, Kariara story from Pt Hedland.Item Restricted Series 14, 7a - Dorre Island (mostly Talainji information)(2015-01-15) Bates, DaisyInformation obtained at Dorre Island, including a list of female natives, their places of origin and some vocabulary (eg Beagle Creek)Item Restricted Series 14, 3a - Gascoyne, etc.(2015-01-15) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...": Gascoyne, Lyons River, etc. Sundry notes, where the remainder has been classified under various headings. These notes include Nyimbaija's wongee and Mirdoolbirdee's information.Item Restricted Series 14, 7b - Information obtained at Dorre Island re Peak Hill natives(2015-01-15) Bates, DaisyInformation obtained at Dorre Island: Peak Hill, Lake Way, Sandstone - names of women on Dorre, Barduwonga, Yimbundi’s wonga, Meekatharra natives' names, Jinalada’s wonga, list of people "whose country is on previous page" and short list of "half castes" at Mission.Item Restricted Series 14, 8 - Notes obtained at Bernier Island of Peak Hill and other natives(2015-01-15) Bates, DaisyNotes obtained at Bernier Island, of Peak Hill and other natives – names of sick natives in Sandstone No. 1-3 Camps, some names of Sandstone women in women’s camp, names of places of Kaiali tribe, N.E. Peak Hill Bamari – Lake Way, Lawlers, Meekatharra, Nannine, Weld Range and others. Some mention of Jaal and his gifts to DMB.Item Restricted Series 14, 3b - Gascoyne and Ashburton (James Cornally’s information)(2015-01-15) Bates, DaisyExtracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling and lingering in areas where derelicts were to be found...This is information received verbally from James Cornally, shepherd, resident of Gascoyne and Ashburton districts for about 20 years. It consists of questions and answers about customs and marriage laws of the Arunta , S.E. natives and others. Mt Augusta or Walyeyooroo, Lake Way, Lawlers, Champion Bay, De Grey, Eucla are some place names mentioned here. There are notes re morals and punishment, some explanation of moieties, many questions about naming, initiation and marriage customs and very few answers here, also some information about visiting customs.Item Restricted Series 14, 5c - Eucla district(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...": List of people from Ooldea, Fowler’s Bay, Nungari and Murgaru; list of provisions for Christmas cheer; list of rations given to Moonlight (Iberi or Wongarri); descriptive writing about the landscape, the difficulties of life, the benefits of a cheerful disposition and her Celtic blood, the wearing of long dresses in the desert and musings on the future of half caste people in white Australia; details of people at the camp; some of the mob at Pintimba; all that are left of the Yuria mob; words from Abladhanu (informant); descriptive writing about the healing power of sea and sun.Item Restricted Series 14, 6f - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling..." Sundry notes of Ooldea district 1919 e.g. lists of natives at Peak Hill, natives on ration list, Bamburu for Peak Hill, Milguin, Belele and Lake Way, old natives at Peak Hill, Bamburu from Peak Hill to Islands, Bamburu to the Island (Bernier?) all on rations at Peak Hill and Tuckanurra old natives.Item Restricted Series 14, 6e - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling..." A collection of rough notes made at Ooldea in 1913: among informants were Nyidarn, Karnduing and ThangarriItem Restricted Series 14, 1 - Nyamel and Mardathoonera district.(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...": Nyamel and Mardathoonera: country and family words from Bernier Island(W.A.)Item Restricted Series 14, 6g - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, DaisyNative Camp, Ooldea: miscellaneous notes collected 30/8/34 from new cannibals at their "yaggala" camp 1 3/4 miles from my camp (one mile north of Ooldea Siding) e.g. home waters and waters reached on their journey to Ooldea Water, names of men, women and children, country and waters from their home to Murgaru (north of Cook)Item Restricted Series 14, 6b - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling..." Notes about Ooldea district natives and others, vocabulary, expressions of abuse and contempt, Empire Day 1920 - family guests, notes on Basedow's book, Dhambu's information, lists of people at Tarcoola and Wynbring 1920, and the "new mob that arrived at my camp in 1927-8.Item Restricted Series 14, 6a - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...". Ooldea district, sundry notes e.g.: Listing of family groups collecting at Ooldea 1920s, extracts from small notebook: Journey to [Ooldea] Soak and round about Plain and edge thereof, September 1919, some vocabulary, a listing of “Some natives roaming between Ooldea and Fowler’s Bay and along E.W. Line” and “Mob at my camp on my return from Perth, June, 1921”. Notes about prostitution, infanticide and cannibalism.Item Restricted Series 14, 5a - Eucla district(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...": lists of names and sundry notes from the areas of Fowler’s Bay, Kuluna East of Wonnunda (Eyre’s sand patch) and Eucla; list of mission natives eg. Ngalgain etc.; Wongarri, informant re Musgrave Ranges, and Oodnadatta; list of Yuldia (Ooldea) people and some words from border people; Wongarri, informant re cure for venereal disease; some people listed as having committed infanticide, cannibalism and having aborted their unborn children, some words of Ubladhanu and names with their places and relationships; lists of people who were given clothing and some still waiting for clothes; list of visitors to Wirilya, September 1915; words from informant Ibari; list of white and native graves in the area; words from informant Yalliyalla; list of those receiving clothes from Daisy Bates at Christmas 1915 (all Ngallea wongga) at New Year and gifts received by Daisy Bates, words from informants Ugu, Binuga, Dhungu and Ngarralea, and lists of some relationships; list of duplicate names and words from Gungunya; list of tree names from Yulbariri wonga; words from Amungarra, informant; words from Jurdilya, informant; list of arrivals at Yuria, 30 October; words from informant Jindu, of Kaangurda, Southern Cross; lyrical writing about her bush camp; list of natives that came for attendance 31/12/16; words from informant Jurdilya; some names of old Yuria men (Jigabili or Mulga-ari, informant); description of bush and birds nesting, headed Wirilya; words from Eucla district; list of words and places from informant Ngardarit.Item Restricted Series 14, 6d - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...". Ooldea notes from 1919 to 1927: Munjingga wongga, genealogy, vocabulary, lists of names, totems, problems of the half-caste people and breakdown of old social organisation laws even before white contact.Item Restricted Series 14, 6L - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, DaisySongs and dance movementsItem Restricted Series 14, 6j - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, DaisyA miscellaneous collection of notes of the Ooldea district: lists of new arrivals 22/8/29, women and girls, men and women, Manggundja wongga, water trees, new arrivals at Ooldea Water Dec.1928.Item Restricted Series 14, 6c - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling..." - a sundry collection of notes written at Ooldea, e.g. re class divisions, social organisation.Item Restricted Series 14, 6h - Ooldea notes. Contains extensive listings of people at Ooldea camp at various periods 1919-34(2015-10-27) Bates, DaisyOoldea notes: the new mob of Munjinja wongga arrived 18/11/27 - e.g. initiation, lists of men, women and children, the new mob, the new spinifex mob, Empire Day Mai recipients (28.5.33) of food, clothing and blankets.Item Restricted Series 14, 2 - Sandstone district(2015-10-27) Bates, Daisy"Extracts from notebooks 1900 – 1935 when in residence at various camps or travelling...": Sandstone district, Sandstone camp: gave rations to (list follows) Mt Magnet people; names of local tribes.
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