amsd_00081

Title: Sketch of a message stick reproduced by D.W. Carnegie (1898)

Description: Sketch of a message stick reproduced in David Carnegie's 'Spinifex and sand' (1897).

Date Created: 1894

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem Year of Carnegie's expedition

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

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given as following: "The position of this well, a very poor one, is lat. 22° 57', long. 128° 20'— one mile West of Mount Webb." (p.254 of digital transcript)

Sources:

Carnegie, David Winford. 1898. Spinifex and sand: A narrative of five years' pioneering and exploration in Western Australia. London: C. A. Pearson.

Coordinates: 22°56'18.898800"S,128°08'45.398400"E  (-22.938583, 128.145944)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mount Webb, Western Australia, per Google maps. Bonzle: Mount Webb is a mountain in east Western Australia. Mount Webb is at an altitude of about 523m above sea level.

Notes: Reproduction of the image is very poor. It is taken from the Project Gutenberg record of the source.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman