AMus_E013408

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Large cylindrical stick, squared ends. Wood painted orange/pink. Side A: incised concentric chevrons. Side B: short zig-zag herringbone incisions. Side C: 2 groups concentric chevrons, lozenge incised between each group, plus incised horizontal bars and cross [ref LC]; Condition: complete. Pigment fading [ref LC].

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 Bloomfield River, Cape York, Queensland. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Cape York; Bloomfield R. [ref reg]; Bloomfield River, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 126mm Dimension 2: 32mm Dimension 3: 28mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1898 Accession date: 24 March 1905

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013408

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 15°55'6.999600"S,145°22'0.998400"E  (-15.918611, 145.366944)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for the Bloomfield River head (near the rural town Bloomfield), Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Bloomfield River is a river in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia,

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3436&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman