CPM1938P125F10

Title: Sketch of a message stick from C. Mountford's "Aboriginal message sticks" (1938)

Description: Sketch of message stick on p. 125 of “Aboriginal message sticks” by C. Mountford

Date Created: 1938

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with "tribal country adjacent to the now deserted Eucla telegraph station" (p. 124)

Sources:

Mountford, C. P. 1938. “Aboriginal message sticks from the Nullabor Plains.”

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 62 (1):122-126.

Collector: Miss A. Lock

Coordinates: 31°42'50.601600"S,128°53'11.198400"E  (-31.714056, 128.886444)

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Eucla telegraph station, per Google Maps. The Nullarbor Plain is a vast area, spreading across the border between SA and WA. Placed this item under WA due to the reference given to the deserted Eucla telegraph station, located in WA.

URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/TransactionsRoy62Roya#page/123/

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman

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