UQAM4757

Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Description: Message stick. Physical Description: The object is a quite thick hardwood of a medium brown colour that has been painted dark brown. It is essentially rectangular however all of the edges slightly curved. There are etchings on both faces; cross harching. There are two small holes on the face that has 'rubbing' wear.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Roper River, Roper - McArthur region, Northern Territory, Australia, Australia

Dimension 1: 140mm Dimension 2: 40mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Unknown

Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 4757

Collector: Sourced by: Mr R. A. Ward

Coordinates: 14°44'8.800800"S,134°43'43.600800"E  (-14.735778, 134.728778)

Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Notes on coordinates: An approximate location on the Roper River, near Ngukurr (Roper River Mission), NT, per Google maps

URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.4757

Notes: 21.3.25 NR - As more items in the UQ Anthropology Museum that have been associated with the Roper River were labeled as donated by the Roper River Mission, it could be the donor of this item as well.

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman