AMus_E00538

Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message stick from the Australian Museum AMus spreadsheet 21.10.22: "E005380 04 Jan 1896 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Capricorn Port Curtis Miriam Vale Tribe, Port Curtis, Qld [ref reg] Donation Hedley, Mr Charles"

Date Created: 1896

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Port Curtis, Capricorn, Queensland, Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date 04/01/1896

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E005380

Coordinates: 23°24'41.601600"S,150°30'43.401600"E  (-23.411556, 150.512056)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Port Curtis, Queensland, per Google maps. Port Curtis and the Capricorn coast are part of the Division of Capricornia - an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=2640&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman