WER1897PXVIIIF337

Title: A message stick reproduced by W.E. Roth (1897)

Description: Sketch of message stick (fig. 337) on plate XVIII of “Ethnological studies” by W. E. Roth

Creator of Object: Sender: a Woonamurra

Date Created: 1897

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

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

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Flinders District

Sources:

Roth, Walter Edmund. 1897. Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines. Brisbane: Edmund Gregory.

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth

Coordinates: 20°50'29.698800"S,144°12'1.299600"E  (-20.841583, 144.200361)

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Flinders Shire Council, Queensland, per Google maps. Flinders District = Flinders Shire. See page Page n61 (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890328/page/n61/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Woonamurra) where Woonamurra is listed as inhabit ab area extending to Kynuna ("48. The "Woonamurra inhabit the watershed of the Saxby and Minders, as far as Cambridge and Eichmond Downs, an area which for present purposes may be referred to as the Upper Flinders District. Southwards it extends to the Ranges and to Kynuna, where it becomes contiguous with Goa country.").

URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029890328#page/n257

URL source 2: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029890328#page/n161

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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman