Series 12, Section V
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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 Section V, 1a - Totems. Southern W.A.(2014-07-01) Bates, DaisyTotems – South Western Australia contains hereditary and group totems, ceremonies for increase, phratry borungur (totems), marriage laws relating to these, meaning of names and connection to totems, laws of abstinence after death of a totem member, connections between natives and their group totems and custodians of the totem laws.Item Restricted Section V, 1b, i - Totemism of Southwestern Aborigines.(2014-07-01) Bates, DaisyTotemism of South Western Aborigines includes the origin of totemism, connection of totems with system of social organisation, types of totems, names derived from totems and identification of totem with human ‘totemkin’.Item Restricted Section V, 1b, ii - Southwestern Totems.(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyTotems – Southwestern district describes hereditary borungur (totems).Item Restricted Section V, 1c - Totems. South and Southwestern districts.(2014-07-01) Bates, DaisyTotems – Southern and South Western Districts, Western Australia Dialectic terms for “totem”, tables showing inheritance of phratry and phratry totem, which is also exogamous, how the bird names of eagle hawk and crow are applied, information from Balbuk and Joobaitch, methods of increase of totems, animals, birds, trees as totems,and much other information about totems in the southern and S.W. of W. A.Item Restricted Section V, 1d - Totems. Totems of Murray District. (Yaburgurt's information)(2014-07-01) Bates, DaisyMurray district totems (Yaburgurt’s information) describes emu totem people (Ngagarnooks), descent of totems, group totems of Yaburgurt’s people and of tribes with whom they intermarried, as well as law-breaking walja totemists.Item Restricted Section V, 1e - Totems. Names derived from totems.(2014-07-01) Bates, DaisyNames applied from totems – describes names given to children from some circumstances happening at birth or from the hereditary or localised totem.Item Restricted Section V, 2a - Totems. Introductory.(2014-07-03) Bates, Daisy‘Totems – introductory’ describes the origin of totemism, the difference between the W.A. system and that of C.A. and social organisation in relation to totems or phratries. Comments made by Andrew Lang and Prof. Brown have led to some pages being retyped.Item Restricted Section V, 2b - Totems of S. and S.W. (chapter)(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyTotems – South and South west W.A. contains information on the suggested derivation of names Ballaruk and Nganarnook, Tondarup and Didarruk, maternal descent of totems, totems from the areas of Perth, Capel, Northam, Vasse, Gingin and Doweringup, edible and non-edible totems, cannibalism, children’s totems, methods of revenge through a totem animal and markings on weapons and scarring.Item Restricted Section V, 3a - Totems. Eucla and Balladonia(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyThe title Totems – Eucla and Balladonia does not describe fully the contents of this item. It includes the totemic divisions, localities and rules concerning intermarriage in the Balladonia and Fraser Range district – Eucla Division. Also included are pedigrees and phratry totems in the Southern Cross (including Russell Range) and Murchison districts. Places throughout W.A. are mentioned in this item for the comparison of totem rules.Item Restricted Section V, 3b - Notes from the Eucla district.(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyNotes from the Eucla district, also diagrams showing districts etc., consists of lists of totem clans and maps of clan country.Item Restricted Section V, 4a - Totems. Murchison District(2012-12-06)Totems - Murchison District Reason for totems (kordarn) and terms used, kangaroo and iguana totems, non-edible totems, hereditary totems, ceremonies for increase, individual ngalungu for Ngadawonga and Wadari tribes, totems, their class and kinship terms applied to them, Nguyaringu’s list and Mindiminbi-ingu’s list, food restrictions and spirit children totem Subjects: Ngaiuwonga, Lake Way, kordarn, Binamara (Cue district), Weld Range, Lawlers, Gascoyne River, Mt MagnetItem Restricted Section V, 4b - Totems. Murchison District (additional)(2012-12-06)Totems - Murchison District (additional) A number of informants from the area describe their totems, food restrictions and ceremonies of increaseItem Restricted Section V, 5a - Totemic System - Northwest W.A.(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyTotemic system, North West W.A. – a comprehensive study of class, local and individual totems, increase ceremonies, spirit totems of sorcerers, abstinence laws, moonma ceremony and totemic markings on weapons.Item Restricted Section V, 5b - Northern Totems. Cornally's Information(2014-07-03) Bates, Daisy'Northern totems' gives James Cornally’s information about Champion Bay, Gascoyne and Ashburton. Northern system differs from the southern system. DMB only conducted a personal investigation of the West Kimberley area and expects the systems east and south of the Kimberley will be identical.Item Restricted Section V, 6a - Ooldea Totems.(2014-07-03) Bates, DaisyTotems of the Ooldea district – lists of natives, their totems and their totem watersItem Restricted Section V, 6b - Totems. Additional Notes - various districts of W.A.(2014-07-07) Bates, DaisyAdditional notes – various districts of W.A. Totems, southern districts, Nyilgee’s notes on S.W. totems, Bardil’s information, southern W.A., Nyamel district notes, S. and S.W. totems, Broome notes, Jubaitch’s questions and answers, and notes from the Ashburton district.Item Metadata only Section V, 6c - Aboriginal Totemic Objects, Sacred and Secret(2014-07-07) Bates, DaisyAboriginal totemic objects, sacred and secret, were kept to terrorise young men and boys into keeping strict food laws, among other things, such as their use in initiation ceremonies.Item Restricted Section V, 7 - Totem Board and Magic Stones - their significance.(2012-12-06)Totem boards and magic stones – their significance Secret and sacred objects were kept by the elders to frighten male youths and all females into keeping strictly all the laws relating to marriage and food supply. Most boards represented the principal meat or other food of the group. Bull roarers and other items were kept and gradually made magic by their owners as their degrees of initiation progressed. Many of these objects were given to Daisy Bates for safekeeping as the elders died. Some were found by thieves and taken from their hiding places, after which they were bartered or sold, but they still retained the spirit totem of the animal or plant to which they belong.