Annie Moysey

Moysey was born north of Bourke on the banks of the Warrego River near Fords Bridge.

[1] She taught her grandson and artist, William Badger Bates, how to carve in the kalti paarti style.

[3] During the 1920s, Moysey was forced to take the children she cared for to the Pooncarie Aboriginal Reserve, due to a work shortage.

[2] She stayed outside the reserve in a camp she set up herself and continued to work to care for the children.

[4] She kept the tribal laws and people believed that she had mekigar (or Barkindji witch doctor) knowledge.