| 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.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman