AMus_E013380

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013380 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Channel Country Boulia Sent to Clonagh [ref reg]; Made in Upper Flinders region, sent to Clonagh, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" EMu: "Wunumurra tribe; sent to Clonagh 1895 [ref reg]; Message stick (ref LC): Maker. Made bya Woonamurra from Flinders District (ethno. Stud. p.138)"

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: E013380

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=5583&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Notes: REGISTER

Date: 23 March 1905

Name or Description: Message or letter stick W​unnamurra tribe

Locality: S​ent to Clonagh 1895

How Acquired: Purch.

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

Estimated or Market Value: S. 8

Destination: Figs. Eth. Studies. Pl XVIII F.337, text sections 235-6

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman