SAM_A_13872

Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the South Australian Museum

Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 1927

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Mutumui Austlang: Y63.1 - Barrow Point Glottolog: gugu1255

Notes on linguistic areas: Atenmale (female) [collected from] Mutumui The origin of the message stick is Barrow Point, Queensland, Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Date Collected: 12. Jan 1927

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-13872

Collector: Collected by: Hale, H.M. & Tindale, N.B.; South Australian Museum Expedition

Coordinates: 14°21'14.698800"S,144°38'38.900400"E  (-14.354083, 144.644139)

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Barrow Point, per Google maps. Bonzle: Barrow Point is in north of Queensland on the Coral Sea which is part of the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest road to Barrow Point is an unsealed road that is un-named in our database (2.99km away). The nearest sealed road to Barrow Point is the Peninsula Developmental Road (124km away).

Notes: 11.10.23 NR: Checked against original SAM register. No new information.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman