RHH1918P22F7

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

Description: Sketch of bean-shaped message stick on p.22, Fig. 7, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris

Date Created: 1918

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

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

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Queensland

Dimension 1: 55mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 21mm

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.

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

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    Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh