RHH1918P28F21

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

Description: Sketch of message stick on p.28, Fig.21, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick [...] is cylindrical in shape, is provided with winding decussating grooves. Both on the obverse and reverse sides a distinct [28] double track is noticeable - which could hardly be interrupted as flash marks. The message is unknown." (p.29)

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 Camboon, Queensland

Dimension 1: 157mm Dimension 2: 19mm

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°04'24.898800"S,150°09'16.801200"E  (-25.073583, 150.154667)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Camboon, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Camboon is a rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Camboon had a population of 76 people.

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman