NMA1986_0070_0044

Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the National Museum of Australia

Description: Wooden message stick, semi-cylindrical with a dark pigmented surface incised with geometric lines.

Creator of Object: Unknown

Date Created: 1914

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem; 1914-06-15

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Mapoon, Queensland, Australia

Dimension 1: 120mm Dimension 2: 25mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Before 15 June 1914

Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: 1986.0070.0044

Collector: Reverend FR Nitzschke collection

Coordinates: 12°01'25.201200"S,141°54'17.899200"E  (-12.023667, 141.904972)

Media copyright: The National Museum of Australia

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mapoon, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/ce/message%20stick?&object=27868

IRN: 27868

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman