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Daisy Bates

Irish-Australian journalist and anthropologist

Died when: 91 years 184 days (1098 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Daisy Bates

Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret 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.

Some Aboriginal people referred to Bates by the courtesy name Kabbarli "grandmother."

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