EMC1886V1P150A

Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland reproduced by E. M.Curr (1886)

Description: Sketch of two facets of one message stick on pp. 150-151 of “The Australian race” by E. M.Curr, later reproduced in Danzel, Theodore Wilhelm. 1912. Die Anfänge der Schrift. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer Verlag.

Date Created: 1886

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

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

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Queensland”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Sources:

Curr, Edward M. 1886. The Australian race: Its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent. 5 vols. Vol. 1. Melbourne: John Ferres.

URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/australianracei01currgoog#page/n203/mode/2up

URL source 2: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10487310.5

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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly