| Coordinates WGS84 | 20°28'S, 140°35'E -20.47, 140.58 |
AMus_E013382
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013382 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Mount Isa Fort Constantine Fort Constantine (Loc. Cloncurry District) [ref reg]; Cloncurry, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" Emu: "made by Maitakudi at Fort Constantine, to send to his bro. "Billy" at Cloncurry Police Barracks. Loc. Cloncurry, 1895 [ref reg[; Maker; Made by a Maitakudi at Fort Constantine, Cloncurry River (ref reg) [ref LC]"
Message: «Unknown» From: a once-known Mitakoodi man at Fort To: his brother Billy at Cloncurry Police Barracks
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 Fort Constantine, Mount Isa, Queensland
Cultural region: Channel Country
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013382
Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund
Coordinates: 20°28'27.001200"S,140°34'57.201600"E (-20.474167, 140.582556)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Fort Constantine Homestead, Queensland, per Google maps. Bonzle: Fort Constantine is located just off the Sedan Dip Road in west Queensland a distance of about 1480km west-northwest from Brisbane. Fort Constantine is one of the westernmost homesteads in Queensland.
Notes: REGISTER
Date: 23 March 1905
Name or Description: Message or letter stick made by a Maitakudi at Fort Constantine to send to his bro. at Cloncurry Police Barracks (loc. Cloncurry 1895)
Locality:
How Acquired: Purch.
Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth
Estimated or Market Value: S. 15
Destination: Figs. Bull 8. Pl4 Fii Negative v. 2342
Remarks:
OTHER NOTES
Roth Bulletin 8 (1905):
Fig. 11.—Oblong, flat, compressed, edges sub-acute, ends sub-truncate; ruddled. Obverse—Two central rhombs and a half rhomb at each end, with triangles at sides; the four central figures and one triangle with transverse nicks, and six other nicks on the upper right-hand edge. Reverse—Two zigzag lateral incised lines with short transverse and oblique incisions irregularly placed. Length, 3 ¾ in. ; breadth, 1 in.
Cloncurry. Made by a Maitakudi, at Fort Constantine, to send to his brother “Billy,” at Cloncurry Police Barracks. 12
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman