| Coordinates WGS84 | 23°23'S, 150°31'E -23.38, 150.51 |
AMus_E013399
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: Straight wooden Message Stick with circular section. It is decorated with irregular incised notches along its whole length [ref reg]; Message stick (ref LC) Small, cigar-shaped stick, rounded ends. Irregular hatchings on surface. (ref LC); Condition: Complete (ref LC).
Creator of Object: AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Maker: Member of Taroombul Tribe, Rockhampton 1897."
Date Created: 1897
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 Rockhampton, Capricorn, Queensland. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Capricorn; Rockhampton [ref reg]; Rockhampton, Queensland [ref LC]."
Dimension 1: 64mm Dimension 2: 10mm Dimension 3: 9mm
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 1897 Accession date: 24 March 1905
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013399
Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund
Coordinates: 23°22'41.199600"S,150°30'48.999600"E (-23.378111, 150.513611)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Rockhampton, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia.
Notes: REGISTER
Date: 24 March 1905
Name or Description: Message or letter stick
Locality: Taroombul Tribe, Rockhampton 1897
How Acquired: Purch.
Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth
Estimated or Market Value: S.32
Destination: Figs. Bull. 8. Pl. 4. F7 negative v. 2342
Remarks:
OTHER NOTES
Roth Bulletin 8 (1905):
Fig. 7.—Cylindrical, round, ruler-shaped: small; ends irregularly cut with a knife; light-coloured wood. Incised with three lines of transverse lenticular notches. Length, 2 ½ in; diameter, 3/8-in. Tarumbal Tribe, Rockhampton.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman