MusV_X_000975

Title: A message stick from Yirandali in Museums Victoria

Description: Physical Description: "A cylindrical section of wood incised with designs. A line is incised around the circumference of the stick at one end." Original register: "Date Received: 1892. Oct. 14. 974. Of Myall wood, (Acacia harpophylla) covered with incised oblique lines, Guiba-Thulba [?] tribe, Hughenden, North Queensland. Presented by R. Youl, M.D. through Sir George Vendon."

Date Created: 1892

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (registered 14 Dec 1892)

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yirandali Austlang: L42 - Yirandali Glottolog: yira1239

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Hughenden, Eyre, Queensland, Australia. Cultural Groups: Yirandali

Dimension 1: 105mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1892-12-14 (registered)

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: MV_Item_X_000975 X 975

Collector: R MD Youl

Place collected: Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

Coordinates: 20°50'37.701600"S,144°11'54.999600"E  (-20.843806, 144.198611)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Hughenden, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Hughenden is a rural town and locality in the Flinders Shire, Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/158175

Notes: Primary Comments Message Stick. Of Myall wood (Acacia harpophylla) covered with incised oblique lines. Oriba Kulba tribe, Hughenden, North Queensland. Presented by R. Youl, M.D. through Sir George Verdon. (Register Entry) Secondary Comments The original entry for Tribe/Group was Oriba Kulba, however Lindy Allen believes this is possibly the name of the object. The Tribe/Group name was updated in June 1994. The AIATSIS Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia notes under the entry for Yirandali: people of the Eyre region on the headwaters of the Thomson and Flinders Rivers ... (see page 1227). Access changed from Restricted to Sensitive by Senior Curators Lindy Allen and John Morton (2000). The production date range attributed by curator. (LAllen 2015) MusV data: X 000975, Message stick, Yirandali, Hughenden, Eyre, Queensland, Australia, pre 1892, Registered Youl, R MD (Presented, 14 Oct 1892) Yirandali Hughenden Queensland

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman