AMus_E013377

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013377 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Channel Country Boulia Boulia [ref reg]; Boulia, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" EMu "Tribe unknown"

Date Created: 1905

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 Boulia, Channel Country, Queensland

Cultural region: Channel Country

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013377

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 22°54'38.498400"S,139°54'38.401200"E  (-22.910694, 139.910667)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Boulia, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Boulia is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=5580&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Notes: REGISTER

Date: 23 March 1905

Name or Description: Message or letter stick (tribe unknown)

Locality: Boulia 1895

How Acquired: Purch.

Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth

Estimated or Market Value: S. 10

Destination: Figs. Bull. 8. Pl1 F4, negative V.2340

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES

Roth Bulletin 8 (1905):

Fig. 4.—Lanceolate, bi-convex, feather-edged; dark wood. Both faces bear the same style of incisions, consisting of three rhombs, bounded by numerous lines, merely scratches, leaving triangles in the interspaces at the sides; the basal halves bear oblique nicks irregularly arranged. Length, 7 5/6 in. width, 5/8-in. Boulia

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman