amsd_00036

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

Description: Sketch of message stick on p. 27, Fig.18, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "A round "Cypress" pine message stick is covered with zigzag ones (in groups) irregularly placed. Message unknown."

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 Herbert River, Queensland

Dimension 1: 129mm Dimension 2: 16mm

Materials: pine wood

Sources:

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

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6:13-36.

Collector: Donor: J. Gaggin

Coordinates: 18°32'11.400000"S,146°17'20.799600"E  (-18.5365, 146.289111)

Notes on coordinates: Random coordinates along the Herbert River, 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