AMus_E013394

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E013394 23 Mar 1905 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Queensland Channel Country Boulia Llanrhheidol d: Boulia [ref reg]; Llanrheidol (fabricated), Boulia (coll.) [ref LC]; Llanrh- heidol is near Tambo (see reg), area L. [LGC 19/05/1996] Purchase Roth, Dr Walter Edmund" EMu: "made by a Kunggari (Tambo district) boy who was sent to me sick, from Llanhheidol: Boolia. '95 [...] Maker:A kunggari boy (Tambo dist)"

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 Boulia, Channel Country, Queensland

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013394

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 22°54'38.498400"S,139°54'38.401200"E  (-22.910694, 139.910667)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Boulia, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Boulia is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=5603&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman