RHH1918P22F08

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

Description: Sketch of message stick on p. 22 of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick is very roughly fashioned of pine wood, possess no notches but only transverse lines cut on each side. Another specimen for the same locality is very similar, except that here there is a greater distance between cut."

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 message stick is associated with Roseburth, Birdsville

Dimension 1: 162mm Dimension 2: 14mm

Materials: pine wood

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°47'24.698400"S,139°35'12.800400"E  (-25.790194, 139.586889)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Roseberth Station, Birdsville, Queensland, per Google maps. Bonzle: Roseberth on the banks of the Diamantina River in Queensland is a homestead about 1350km west of Brisbane

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

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman