RHH1918P19F4

Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by Hamlyn-Harris (1918)

Description: Sketch of message stick on p.20, Fig.4, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick suggests totemic designs similar to those used on the bodies of initiates, in cave-drawings (as well as the markings associated with burial in New South Wales). The lines and notches are moderately deep, and the hole has been drilled with firestick. The notches are in sets of 3, 4, and 7; and 2, 1, and 5 on the sides respectively. Message unknown."

Date Created: 1918

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Karuwali Austlang: L35 - Karuwali Glottolog: karr1236

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Barcoo, Queensland. Linguistic area is inferred from Barcoo.

Dimension 1: 174mm Dimension 2: 19mm Dimension 3: 7mm

Materials: ironbark

Sources:

Hamlyn Harris, R. 1918. “On messages and ‘message sticks’ employed among the Queensland Aborigines.”

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6:13-36.

Coordinates: 25°10'33.200400"S,141°31'17.000400"E  (-25.175889, 141.521389)

Notes on coordinates: Based on centroid

URL source 1: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47577#page/51/mode/1up

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh