RHH1918P21F5
Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by Hamlyn-Harris (1918)
Description: Sketch of message stick on p.21, Fig.5, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris
Message: A roughly fashioned and untrimmed stick made of ironbark, containing a message with reference to a long journey. The flat obverse side only contains a long sinuous line and a very short one, together with one notch on the side of the same. On the reverse there are a number of irregularly placed lines producing in the manner of their arrangement a roughly carved diamond-shaped figure, so characteristic of message sticks (p. 21)
Date Created: 1918
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
State/Territory: QLD
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Queensland”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Semantic domains: sd_journey, sd_time
Dimension 1: 131mm Dimension 2: 10mm
Materials: ironbark
Sources:
URL source 1: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47577#page/51/mode/1up
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman