amsd_00029

Title: Sketch of a message stick from Hamlyn-Harris's "On messages and "Message Sticks" (1918)

Description: Sketch of message stick on p.23, Fig.11, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "The wood used for this stick is extremely soft, and white clay has been smeared over a portion of the surface only. Crude boomerangs are marked upon the reverse side".

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 Bourke river

Dimension 1: 317mm Dimension 2: 33mm

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: 22°15'45.799200"S,140°04'27.901200"E  (-22.262722, 140.074417)

Notes on coordinates: Random coordinates along the Burke River, Queensland. Please note: Bourke = Burke?

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman