| Coordinates WGS84 | 23°33'S, 139°53'E -23.54, 139.89 |
WER1897PXVIIIF327
Title: A message stick reproduced by W.E. Roth (1897) and M. Frank (1940). Possibly held in the Australian Museum but misfiled.
Description: Sketch of message stick (fig. 327) on plate XVIII of “Ethnological studies” by W.E. Roth. Sketch of message stick (fig. 21) on p. 345 in Maria Frank's "Botenstäbe in Australien"
Message: Made by a Boinji (Boulia District). To be forwarded to wherever any of his mates may be staying. Obv.: To tell him to come up to the meeting place. Rev.: Covered with flash" marks. The obverse was "read" from below up. A = sandhills, B = sandy creek, C = sandhills - these three together representing Ka-ti-min-ji-li, the particular spots where the Boinji have their head camp, D = country round about Marion Downs, E = plains and flat open country, F = Te-di-boo, the "five-mile" yard from Boulia, G = River Hamilton, H = " where we meet" - at a spot belonging to Warenda country." (p. 137)
Creator of Object: Sender: a Boinji (Boulia District)
Date Created: 1897
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
Subtype: traditional
State/Territory: QLD
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Pitta-Pitta Austlang: G6 - Pitta Pitta Glottolog: pitt1247
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Boulia District Tindale describes Boinji as a horde of Pitta Pitta (http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pitapita.htm)
Semantic domains: sd_creek_sandycreek, sd_hill_sandhill, sd_place_country, sd_place_meetingplace, sd_request_invitation
Sources:
Collector: Walter Edmund Roth
Coordinates: 23°32'32.938800"S,139°53'22.124400"E (-23.542483, 139.889479)
Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Pitta-Pitta
URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029890328#page/n257
URL source 2: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029890328#page/n159
Media Files:
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly