AMus_E013419

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Message stick, wooden, circular cross section, deep cuts on one side [ref LC]; Condition: Complete [ref LC].

Date Created: 1903

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 Burketown, Gulf Country, Queensland. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Gulf Country; Burketown [ref reg]; Burketown, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 150mm Dimension 2: 16mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1903 Accession date: 24 March 1905

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013419

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 17°44'27.200400"S,139°32'51.201600"E  (-17.740889, 139.547556)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Burketown, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Burketown is an isolated outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=5611&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman