AMus_E013389

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013389 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Gulf Country Normanton Normanton [ref reg]; Normanton, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" EMu: "Normanton" [no other identifying information]

Date Created: 1896

Notes on date created: date of collection

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Normanton, Gulf Country, Queensland

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013389

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 17°40'25.399200"S,141°04'28.498800"E  (-17.673722, 141.074583)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Normanton, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=5598&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Notes: REGISTER

Date: 23 March 1905

Name or Description: Message or letter stick

Locality: Normanton, 1896

How Acquired: Purch.

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

Estimated or Market Value: S.22

Destination: Figs. Bull. 8 Pl2 F8. neg. v.2343

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES

AMus:"Condition:complete, mould./ Messenger always trusted adult male, never a female (Ethno.Stud.p.137)." Roth Bulletin 8 (1905):

Fig. 8.—Cylindrical or ruler-shaped, short, round, blunt-ended; dark wood. Incised with parallel zigzag lines. Length, 3 1/8 in.; diameter, 5/8-in.

Normanton.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman