amsd_00056

Title: Sketch of a message stick from Queensland by R. Brough Smythe (1878)

Description: Sketch of two planes of a message stick on p. 355 of R. Brough Smythe's "Aborigines of Victoria", later reproduced in Danzel, Theodore Wilhelm. 1912. Die Anfänge der Schrift. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer Verlag.

Date Created: 1878

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Queensland”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Sources:

Brough Smythe, R. 1878. The Aborigines of Victoria: With notes relating to the habits of natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania. Vol. I. Melbourne & London: John Ferres.

Collector: the Honorable Fred. P. Barlee, M.P., the Colonial Secretary of West Australia (p. 355)

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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup