Section 5: Notes not for legends or included in Aborigines: Odd notes only
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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 5, 21 - The house that Jack built : poem. Typescript. 2p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyTypescript of poem, The House that Jack built (2 versions)Item Restricted Series 5, 20 - The blue or fairy wren: poem. Typescript, with ms. notes from the author - J.F.T., 19/9/28.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyTypescript of poem The Blue or Fairy Wren acknowledging DMB’s collection of native words for birds, and autographed by the writer J.F.T. 19/9/28Item Restricted Series 5, 19 - Middle men and Government "Burrows". ms. 5p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyMSS letter headed “Middlemen and Government “Burrows” (Bureaux) by the men most concerned.Item Restricted Series 5, 18 - The pioneers: H.M. in Spectator. ms. 1p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyThe Pioneers H.M. in Spectator (MSS poem transcribed)Item Restricted Series 5, 17 - "Courtesy & good manners..." ms. 1p. (From Belfast news)(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyMSS, short piece on Courtesy and good mannersItem Restricted Series 5, 16 - "Pethar Dooley's commentary on America's responsibilities..." ms. 1p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyMSS with printed joke appended: Irish characteristics – a short piece written in Irish idiom.Item Restricted Series 5, 15 - 8 miscellaneous press clippings : Problem for Whyalla engineers, Citizen rights for natives, Charges of cruelty to aborigines, Control of aborigines, Leichhardt's last expedition, Poems and rhymes, Land and other property for sale (?), Mrs. Napier Birks.(2015-03-13) Bates, Daisy8 newspaper clippings, various subjects eg poems, Leichhardt, citizen rights for aborigines, cruelty to aboriginesItem Restricted Series 5, 14 - Miscellaneous ms. notes concerning aborigines. 14 items.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyBoolardee pedigree, names, some illegible. Description of burial preparations for Booreeangoo, some lists of native names, vocabulary, notes to self, short list of articles sent to newspapers etc.Item Restricted Item Restricted Series 5, 12 - Hymn in native language, Beagle Bay. ms. (not Daisy Bates) 1p.(2015-03-13)Hymn, Kimberley language, Beagle Bay (W.A.)Item Restricted Series 5, 11 - Some Ooldea area natives' names "My natives who helped me carry my boxes". Typescript. 1p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisySome of my Ooldea area natives’ names: My natives who helped me carry my boxes (7 names), my two ulberu (2 names) initiated last year, am sending shirts to (12 names), 3 new natives (1934) with multiple names (2,3,2), those who helped me with luggage to siding, May 1935 (9 names).Item Restricted Series 5, 10 - Newspaper clipping and brief ms. note on Dr. A. Capell. 1p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyDr Capell from the Dresden Palatine Mission has settled at the former Trappist Mission in Beagle Bay in 1929.Item Restricted Series 5, 9 - Weld Range...ms. written on 13 pieces of used envelopes - concerns Wilgee Mine; and clipping on Weld Range with ms. notes.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyD.M.B. writes in 1909 of being taken by the last living aboriginal owner to receive his legacy of the iron hills and haematite/ochre mine in the Weld Range (W.A.) near Cue. He tells her all the legends and magic of the area within his memory, they pass the stones said to be the ancestor guardian of the mine without incident and descend through a small opening into the dark mine, where they crawl through to another opening into daylight. In this process, both become covered with ochre “from hat to heel” and he passes ownership of these hills to her when he dies.Item Restricted Series 5, 8 - Australia's one big river and its lost people... ms. 2p. with 4 press cuttings concerning the Murray River.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyA short article about the Murray River and its lost people. The river was a reliable source for food and water for many native groups over long periods of time. Some groups built canoes for travel to ceremonies or battlegrounds.Item Restricted Series 5, 7 - "Dear little friends, I should like you to know...about the little black children who lived on the banks of the Murray..." ms. 8p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyIn the form of a letter to children, D.M.B. describes the lifestyle of Aboriginal children in the recent past and compares it with the present European settlements. She goes on to describe the Aborigines’ treatment of their women and the contrasting observations they must have made of the settlers’ wives, who worked in equal partnership with their men. Further she writes about the dying out of the once proud warriors once their land was taken and as white man’s law became prevalent.Item Restricted Series 5, 6 - Murray River natives - ms. 4p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyA short description of the conditions in which the lands of the River Murray natives in South Australia have been fenced, ploughed and planted, and native plant and meat foods have disappeared. Evidence that tribal battles had been fought here and the dead buried over many centuries has been found in the earth banks surrounding the river. DMB set up camp at Pyap to see if there was still anyone left who could remember any language, customs or ceremonies of the former Aboriginal owners.Item Restricted Series 5, 5 - "He's a jolly good fellow" - Bibbulmun rendering. ms. 2p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyLetter written in pencil to “Mrs Bates” (1 p.) ‘He’s a jolly good fellow’ – Bibbulmun rendering, (South Western Australian Aborigines) and Ooldea and Central Australian rendering, and pencilled draft (2 p.)Item Restricted Series 5, 4 - The burial of Mamman - Swan River pronouns - Eucla area totems. ms. 4p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyThe passage describes part of the Jalgoo ceremonies where young women are shared with visitors and visitors’ wives offered to hosts in return after the ceremony.Item Restricted Series 5, 3 - Précis: "for which I received quiet unofficial approval..." ms. p.2-6.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyContinuation of DMB’s service record with the Australian Aborigines when she worked among the people of Perth, New Norcia, Gingin, Albany, Esperance, Murchison, Goldfields, Broome and the North West areas as well as Dorre and Bernier Islands during the years 1902-10. In 1911 she cared for measles patients in Katanning and in 1912 she moved east to Esperance and Eucla areas. Up to and including 1914, she was in Eucla and afterwards she looked after people from the Bight, Boundary Dam and further north as well as Ooldea. In 1918 she was Matron of the War Veterans Home for a short time and then returned to a camp at Ooldea on the E-W train line where people from different areas were coming for food and water. DMB carried on the work of caring for and feeding sick and needy aboriginal people until 1935. This was done with her own money, derived from sale of her properties and the sale of her articles to numerous journals and newspapers. In return the Aborigines gave her information about genealogy, language, social organisation, totems and customs.Item Restricted Series 5, 2 - Record of service for the aborigines of Central Australia... ms. 14p.(2015-03-13) Bates, DaisyThis article begins as Daisy Bates’ record of service for the Aborigines of Central Australia but digresses to become a discussion of the people who came to her Eucla camp in 1912-14 and the connections of the Bibbulmun to Theban Egypt and of their languages to those of the Dravidian people of India. DMB goes on to discuss her work at the Catholic Trappist Mission at Beagle Bay in 1900 with Bishop Gibney and Dean Martelli and the movements and customs of the Aborigines living nearby. The people had never dared to cross the Nullarbor Plain for fear of Ganba the snake spirit, but they were taken across in a camel buggy by a benevolent white man, Chichester Beadon.