| Coordinates WGS84 | 24°47'S, 131°22'E -24.78, 131.36 |
QV1923P17
Title: A sketch of a message stick from Central Australia in an article (1923)
Description: Sketch of message stick in 1923 "Saturday Journal" article "Round the City"
Message: A number of men are asked to come to us when the moon's face is round; goannas are fat and plentiful; and the gumtrees are teeming with grubs; bring spears. [...] In this particular case the perpendicular strokes indicate men, and the zig zag lines suggest walking. The full moon is represented by a circle, concentric circles convey the idea of a large gumtree, close to which a cross clearly points to a fight. The marks by the gumtree are the symbols illustrating the presense of grubs, the tracks are those of goannas, and the curved line is a crude drawing of a lizard. (p. 17)
Date Created: 1923
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
Subtype: traditional
State/Territory: NT
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Luritja Austlang: C7.1 - Luritja Glottolog: pint1250
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with the Aluridja tribe, Central Australia "Aluridja" is Luritja, which is AUSTLANG C7.1: Luritja, but glottocode pint1250 (Pintupi Luritja)
Cultural region: nt_ca
Semantic domains: sd_activity_walking, sd_activity_war, sd_animal_goanna, sd_animal_grub, sd_person_group, sd_person_man, sd_request_invitation, sd_time_moon, sd_tree, sd_weapon_spear
Source types: newspaper article
Coordinates: 24°46'46.686000"S,131°21'42.220800"E (-24.779635, 131.361728)
Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Luritja
URL source 1: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199233785
Notes: PK: The spurious 'translation' sounds very similar to that associated with NML56_24_497
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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly