QM_QE1937

Title: A message stick from Central Queensland in the Queensland Museum Kurilpa

Date Created: 1897-12-16

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: Central Queensland

Institution/Holder file: Queensland Museum Kurilpa object identifier: QE1937

Notes: QM REGISTER

Date: March 16, 1923

Registration no: 1937

Name or Description: Message stick, lines filled in with blue

Locality: Central Qld.

From Whom Acquired: Isles, Love & Co.

How Acquired: Pur:171 References to Papers: Old Coll. 969

Destination:

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES:

03.02.2026 PK: In register this is adjacent to QE1936: "Aboriginal cranium. Aged woman, edentulous. McDonnell Stn. York, Pen. Sir Matthew Nathan. Don. Remarks: Re-seg P.A. 37 Bullet holes in frontal and occipital bone; bullet embedded in frontal!" In other words, the woman was shot in the back of the head and the bullet did not fully exit the front.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly