Coordinates WGS84 | 17°57'S, 146°09'E -17.95, 146.16 |
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E010130 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
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E010130
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=3230&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman