Created: 21 October 1998
Modified: 13 December 1999, 8 August 2008

Note: that the National Library introduced a new numbering system for these maps in September 1999, which is not (yet) available online.

Daisy Bates Special Collection
Maps

These maps been in the NLA Map Collection probably since 1941, separated from the Daisy Bates Manuscript Collection for storage and conservation reasons. See especially pp.23-25 of Isobel White (ed.) 1985. Daisy Bates. The Native Tribes of Western Australia. (Canberra: NLA).

The collection comprises 35 maps all of (parts of) WA, some clearly summaries of language and district names by DB, others fairly clearly drawn by (named) Aboriginal informants with place names added by DB. Most maps are of the 'Murchison district', and the rest are mostly around the WA SW and S coast and hinterland. There are also a couple of over-writings in the Kimberleys.

There is an un-numbered overview map of WA, "showing main cultural divisions of Aboriginal people", a photostat copy of the map reproduced opposite page 13 of White (ed.) 1985, there sourced as NLA, MS 365/3/4-5 Daisy Bates Papers.

MAPS

typescript caption on list provided with collection: annotation by David Nash 21 Oct 1998
1. Tribal areas - Southern district: base map: '1909 Proposed Railway', colour, Kalgoorlie to SA border, to coast; names added in ink
2. Tribal areas - Windell area: base map: section of colour WA map; includes 'Inawonga'; cf. DB7
3. Totems: base map: WA
4. Social Organisation: base map: WA
5. Geographical Distribution: base map: WA; includes 'Bardu'
6. Group areas of S. Bibbulman
7. Group areas of Esperance area: base map: section of colour WA map; cf. DB2
8. Dialectic Map: monochrome copy of colour original
9.-31. Murchison district maps, showing waterholes, etc.
9. Map of Murchison area (Wardad,au, Kaiagaia, etc.): includes: Lake Austin, Barlu; cf. DB25
10. Wardadau and Yinibundu (informants)
11. Lake Way Road: "Jinpuru's map"; includes Peak Hill
12. Ngulyibongu's, Maju's, Moaji's maps: pencil; 3 maps copied on to one sheet side by side
13. Ngulyibongu's map (2): ink; cf. DB15
14. Ngulyibungu's map (3)
15. Ngulyibungu's map (4): pencil; cf. DB13
16. Jangari's map (roads from Wilurna): purple pencil circles; faint pencilled names, many circles unnamed
17. Muri's map: includes Wilurna at edge
18. Giljur's map (1)
19. Giljur's map (2): includes: Jinmirning, BARLU [range]
20. Maju and Raja, informants: includes 'Gundu (limestone)'; pencil draft; ink copy
21. Womburu's map: includes 'Rabbit Proof Fence', Ngadawonga; large, with small inset
22. Jurdain's map, Edjudina
23. informant not given: includes Black Range; "See Jilguraguru" on edge - cf. DB26
24. Thurada's map: includes Cosmo Newberry
25. informant not given: includes: Lake Austin, Sandford; cf. DB9
26. Jilguguru's map: includes Lake Barlee, Ngabbaru; cf. DB23
27. Yingilit's map: note "Sent to W. Mail 21/3/1927"; includes Denmark, S coast
28. Gascoyne area map: includes Lake Way
29. Yandarga's map: includes Lake Way, Lawler; numerous names
30. Bauljara's map: includes "Barduwonga or Bardimaia", Sandstone
31. Nannine, etc. district, informant not given: includes Brown's Soak, Mt Townsend big meeting place; "towards Meekatharra" on edge
4 oddments: un-numbered and unlabelled

There are also maps in boxes 92 and 93 of the DM Bates collection (MS 365) in the NLA Manuscript Room.

MS 365/93/20: hand-traced map of Australia with areas in eastern Australia and SW WA marked according to various "phratry names"
"Native Maps", MS 365/93[?]/28: sketch map "Eucla area"
MS 365/93/: "Janpari's map. Ngauwonga"; includes many Aboriginal names, and 'Gum Creek', 'Poison Creek'

Daisy Bates Special Collection Maps

Daisy Bates Special Collection
Maps