NMA1986_0070_0045_1

Title: Message sticks from Queensland held in the National Museum of Australia

Description: Three wooden message sticks - two cylindrical and one semi-cylindrical, with dark pigmented surfaces incised with geometric lines, joined together with string.

Creator of Object: Unknown

Date Created: 1914

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

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: From top to bottom: L 80mm x W 25mm x D 25mm L 115mm x W 20mm x D 15mm L 90mm x W 25mm x D 25mm 80 top / 115 middle / 90 bottommm Dimension 2: 25 top / 20 middle / 25 bottommm Dimension 3: 25 top / 15 middle / 25 bottommm

Materials: pigment, string, wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Before 15 June 1914

Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: 1986.0070.0045

Collector: Collection: Reverend FR Nitzschke collection Collector: Reverend John Hey. Moravian missionary. Recipient: Reverend Friedrich Richard Nitzschke Reverend F.R. Nitzschke of New York received this object as a gift from his colleague Reverend J.N. Hey who was working at Mapoon in 1914.

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=27869

IRN: 27869;27870;27871

Notes: JB: This is the first (highest) message stick in a string. Dimensions of all sticks from top to bottom: L 80mm x W 25mm x D 25mm L 115mm x W 20mm x D 15mm L 90mm x W 25mm x D 25mm

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman