| Coordinates WGS84 | 20°28'S, 140°35'E -20.47, 140.58 |
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. Coloncurry, 1895 [ref reg[; Maker; Made by a Maitakudi at Fort constantin, Cloncurry River (ref reg) [ref LC]"
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
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.
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman