AMus_E013390

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013390 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Gulf Country Normanton Normanton [ref reg]; Normanton, Queensland [ref LC] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund"

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 Normanton, Gulf Country, Queensland

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013390

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=5599&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman