amsd_00028

Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by Hamlyn-Harris (1918)

Description: Sketch of message stick on p.23, Fig.10 of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick is encompassed by winding lines, the interstices being filled with short cross-bars, the cuts of which are now and then broad. The surface has been charcoaled."

Date Created: 1918

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 Normanton, North Queensland

Dimension 1: 131mm Dimension 2: 11mm

Materials: wood

Sources:

Hamlyn Harris, R. 1918. “On messages and ‘message sticks’ employed among the Queensland Aborigines.”

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6:13-36.

Coordinates: 17°40'25.399200"S,141°04'28.498800"E  (-17.673722, 141.074583)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Normanton, Queensland, per Google maps

URL source 1: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47577#page/51/mode/1up

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman