AMus_E010129

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet October 2022: "E010129 24 Aug 1901 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Townsville Dunk Island Dunk Isl'd Q'land [ref reg] Purchase Hedley, Mr Charles"

Date Created: 1901

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 Dunk Island, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration date 24.08.1901

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E010129

Collector: Purchased by Mr Charles Hedley

Coordinates: 17°56'48.001200"S,146°09'21.999600"E  (-17.946667, 146.156111)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Dunk Island, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Dunk Island, known as Coonanglebah in the Warrgamay and Dyirbal languages, is an island within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3229&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman