| Coordinates WGS84 | 17°16'S, 145°29'E -17.26, 145.49 |
AMus_E013411
Title: A message stick inviting other mobs in the neighbourhood to come in, held in the Australian Museum
Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Cigar-shaped, rounded ends. Half stick decorated with incised cross-hatching, remainder incised zig-zag and parallel lines. Ochre in incisions [ref LC]
Message: «All mobs to come in»
AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Message or letter stick, made by "paddy", the son of the "boss" of the Atherton blacks, telling the other mobs in the neighbourhood to come in [ref reg];"
Creator of Object: Sender: Paddy Mus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Message or letter stick, made by "paddy", the son of the "boss" of the Atherton blacks"
Date Created: 1898
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Subtype: traditional
State/Territory: QLD
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Djirbal Austlang: Y123 - DYIRBAL / JIRRBAL Glottolog: dyir1250
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Atherton, Cape York, Queensland, Australia. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Cape York; Atherton [ref reg]; Atherton, N. Q'ld [ref LC]"
Dimension 1: 133mm Dimension 2: 18mm
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 1898 Accession date: 24 March 1905
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013411
Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund
Coordinates: 17°15'53.600400"S,145°29'14.499600"E (-17.264889, 145.487361)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Atherton
Notes: REGISTER
Date: 24 March 1905
Name or Description: Message or letter stick, made by "Paddy" the son of the "boss" of the Atherton blacks, telling the other mobs in the neighborhood to come in, Atherton 1898
Locality: xxxxxxx
How Acquired: Purch.
Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth
Estimated or Market Value: S.44
Destination: Figs. Bull. 8. Pl. 2. F3 negative v. 2343 VII582
Remarks:
OTHER NOTES
Roth Bulletin 8 (1905)
Fig. 3—Cylindrical or ruler-shaped, thick, with blunt rounded apices, and the surface ruddled. Rather more than half the stick is incised with spiral lines as in Fig.2. producing similar figures. The lower position of the stick is divided into three longitudinal zones by three continuous zigzag incisions, the interspaces between them being partially infilled by short transverse incisions. Length, 5 ½ in.; diameter, ¾ -in.
Atherton. Made by “Paddy,” son of the headman of the Atherton Tribe, telling the other local tribes to come in.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman