Daisy Bates (author)

Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret May O'Dwyer; 16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and self-taught anthropologist who conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. Bates was a lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society and was the first anthropologist to carry out a detailed study of Australian Aboriginal culture.

For other people named Daisy Bates, see Daisy Bates (disambiguation).

Daisy Bates
Bates in 1936
Born
Daisy May O'Dwyer

(1859-10-16)16 October 1859
Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland
Died18 April 1951(1951-04-18) (aged 91)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Resting placeNorth Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia
OccupationJournalist
Spouse(s)Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant, possible bigamous marriage to John (Jack) Bates and definite bigamous marriage to Ernest C. Baglehole
ChildrenArnold Hamilton Bates

Some of the Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra people referred to Bates by the courtesy name Kabbarli "grandmother." In the 1970's in Yalata, she was referred to as mamu, meaning ghost or devil, and as "that poor old lady at Ooldea".: 109 

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