Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Clothing and personal effects

Archive Collections / Daisy May Bates / Series AA23/05 / Clothing and personal effects

This series consists of clothing and other personal effects received by the Museum after Daisy Bates' death in 1951.

The contents are stored in 6 boxes and have been labelled from Box A to Box F as follows:

Box A

  • 1 black velvet pillbox hat with artificial flowers trim

  • 1 brown, green, beige, yellow and blue fabric pillbox hat

  • 1 black hat

  • 1 black hat with black ties and bow

  • 1 black felt hat with veil

  • 1 straw hat with black velvet ribbon

  • 2 hat pins

  • 2 black veils

  • 1 blue veil

  • 1 envelope with handwritten note 'my hairnets'

  • hairnets

  • 1 ivory crepe long sleeves buttoned shirt

  • 2 cream satin or silk blouses

  • 1 buttoned calico and lace bodice [undergarment]

  • 1 cropped buttoned calico bodice [undergarment]

  • 1 collar or trim



Box B
  • 2 piece navy wool suit

  • 2 piece grey suit

  • 2 piece black wool suit

  • 2 piece grey gabardine suit with blue checks

  • 1 blue/purple jacket

  • 1 black skirt



Box C
  • 8 starched collars

  • fabric pieces with clothing pattern

  • 1 piece of fabric

  • bits of string, ribbon, bias binding, wool etc bound in acid free paper

  • 1 skein of brown wool

  • 1 ball of wool

  • 1 empty tyvek bag with a note 'filled Feb '81'

  • 1 tag with handwritten note 'packet of seeds'. Seeds are missing



Box D
  • wooden coathanger

  • 6 piece wooden shoe trees (2 sets)

  • 19 handkerchiefs; 1 with nappy pin

  • lace bag (that had contained a 4 piece spirit burner and stand; black shoe polish; black shoe brush and tin of canned heat 'burnzo')

  • 2 calico bags

  • 1 drawstring cloth bag with 'kiwi polishing cloth' printed on it

  • 1 large piece of calico with 'this [?] My Burial' handwritten note

  • 1 calico bag

  • 1 small piece of calico [cloth?]

  • bits of cloth bound in acid free paper



Box E
  • 1 pair of cream chamois gloves

  • 1 pair of off white cotton gloves

  • 1 grey single glove

  • 1 pair of beige gloves

  • 1 pair of brown woolen gloves

  • 1 string of orange wooden beads

  • 1 broken string of green and white beads



Box F
  • 4 piece spirit burner and stand; black shoe polish; black shoe brush and tin of canned heat 'burnzo'

  • gophering iron

  • knife

  • celluloid/vinyl object

  • 1 leather purse

  • 1 yellow comb

  • 1 mirror

  • 1 tin with sewing items such as needles, cotton, wool and thimble as well as an ink pen




There is also 1 brown suitcase.

Creator: Daisy May Bates
Control: AA23/5/3
Date Range:  1949  -  1952
Series:  AA23/05