| Coordinates WGS84 | 19°19'S, 139°50'E -19.31, 139.83 |
Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the Australian Museum
Description: Message stick from the Australian Museum AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013388 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Made at Gunpowder Creek, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" EMu "Kalkadoon trib e(History in Eth. Studies. Firgs. Bull. 8 pl. f3 Eth Studies Pl XVIII f 336a text sect. 235 & 6 Maker: A Kalkadoon boy from gunpoweder creek (Eth. Stud. p 138) [PK: this is the one that looks like a wishbone] Listed as Lost by 1996 in EMu
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 Gunpowder Creek, Queensland, Australia
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Date registered 23/03/1905
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013388
Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund
Coordinates: 19°18'36.201600"S,139°49'58.501200"E (-19.310056, 139.832917)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Approximate mid point of Gunpowder Creek, Queensland, per Google maps
Notes: PK: Possibly mentioned in Roth 1897
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly