AMus_E013415

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Elliptical-shaped stick, evidence of red ochre. Both sides incised with cross-hatching.; Condition: Complete [ref LC].

Date Created: 1900

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 Camooweal, Mount Isa, Queensland. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Mount Isa; Camooweal [ref reg]; Camooweal, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 122mm Dimension 2: 30mm Dimension 3: 6mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1900 Accession date: 24 March 1905

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013415

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 19°55'15.801600"S,138°07'10.599600"E  (-19.921056, 138.119611)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Camooweal, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Camooweal is an outback town and locality in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with the Northern Territory.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=5608&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman