| Coordinates WGS84 | 15°28'S, 145°15'E -15.46, 145.24 |
Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the Australian Museum
Description: Message stick from the Australian Museum
Date Created: 1893
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem; 1893–05–09
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: QLD
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Cooktown, Endeavour River Cape York, Queensland, Australia. AM excel spreadsheet provided by Melanie in Oct 2022: "Cooktown [ref reg]; Cooktown, Endeavour River, Qld (unknown attrib ref SC) [ref LC]"
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Registration Date 09/05/1893
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E004186
Collector: Mr William Miller Mr Archibald Meston
Coordinates: 15°27'52.498800"S,145°14'32.600400"E (-15.464583, 145.242389)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for the Endeavour River mouth near Cooktown, Queensland, per google maps.
Notes: Purchase from Miller and Meston EMu: "Correspondence notes on schedule 6/1893. Purch no 6"
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Alexandra Roginski, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman