RHH1918P32F27

Title: Sketch of a message stick by Hamlyn-Harris (1918), and Frank (1940)

Description: Sketch of message stick on p.32, fig.27, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "A very roughly made pine message stick from Mountain Creek, Northern Territory. Message unknown"

Date Created: 1918

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

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

Subtype: traditional_context

State/Territory: NT

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yugul Austlang: N85 - Yugul Glottolog: yugu1250

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Mountain Creek, Northern Territory

Cultural region: TopEnd

Dimension 1: 115mm 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.

Collector: Mr. M. J. Colelough [Colclough]

Coordinates: 14°50'50.301600"S,134°45'7.898400"E  (-14.847306, 134.752194)

Notes on coordinates: These are the coordinates for Mountain Creek south of Ngukurr. There is another Mountain Creek in NT near Kalkarindji at 17°20'51.0"S 129°48'57.6"E

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly