Coordinates WGS84 | 18°32'S, 146°17'E -18.54, 146.29 |
Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by Hamlyn-Harris (1918)
Description: Sketch of message stick on p.28, Fig.19, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlyn-Harris: "This stick, though in the main round, has practically four sides and is raddled with a dark-red ochre. The two rows of notches number 24 and 25 respectively, and a groove (track) runs along one of these rows; for the rest zigzag lines and crosses are typical. 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: 89mm Dimension 2: 9mm
Materials: pine wood
Techniques: raddled with a dark-red ochre
Sources:
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