amsd_00040

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

Description: Sketch of message stick on p. 29, Fig.22, of "On messages and "Message Sticks" employed among the Queensland Aborigines" by R. Hamlin-Harris: "This stick is made of an ironbark, andits surfaces are engraved with faint lines, more pronounced on the obverse side. 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 Camboon, Queensland

Dimension 1: 193mm Dimension 2: 21mm

Materials: ironbark

Sources:

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

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6:13-36.

Coordinates: 25°04'24.898800"S,150°09'16.801200"E  (-25.073583, 150.154667)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Camboon, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Camboon is a rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Camboon had a population of 76 people.

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman