RHM1918P19F3
Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by Hamlyn-Harris (1918)
Description: Sketch of message stick on p.20, Fig.3, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick has zigzag lines on the side of top corner, but not one line completely encircles it; there is an isolated diamond-shaped figure in centre of the obverse side. Message unknown."
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: 115mm Dimension 2: 6mm Dimension 3: 8mm
Materials: ironbark
Sources:
URL source 1: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47577#page/51/mode/1up
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh