AMus_E013421

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or Letter-Stick [ref reg]; Message stick (ref LC) Message stick; wooden; oblong; bi-convex section; incisions on both sides. (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 Whitsunday Island, Townsville, Queensland. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Townsville; Whitsunday Island, Cumberland Group, Queensland [ref reg]; Whitsunday Island, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 110mm Dimension 2: 18mm

Source types: museum collection

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

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013421

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 20°15'S,148°58'0.001200"E  (-20.25, 148.966667)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Whitsunday Island, Queensland

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=16774&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Notes: REGISTER

Date: March 24, 1905

Name or Description: Message or Letter stick

Locality: Whitsunday Island, 1903

How Acquired: Purch.

Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth

Estimated or Market Value: S.54

Destination: Figs. Bull. 8. Pl 1. F2 neg. V. 2340

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES

Roth Bulletin 8 (1905):

Fig. 2—Oblong, flattened or compressed, plano-convex, edges sub-acute and bearing obtuse notches, ends angular or roof-shaped. Both faces bear faint longitudinal and transverse scratches, and widely extended zigzag lines. Length, 4 ¼ inc.; width 5/8-in.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman