amsd_01893

Title: Sketch of a message stick in Anthropological Society of Queensland records, at SLQ

Description: PK: This was perhaps made by the missionary Belcher. Text reads: Used to summons the other tirbe to fight because they had been the cause of too much raiun, resulting from their ceremony.

A Sydney Is'd stick.

Nullas spears

1. People. People

2. Boomerangs Fighters Place where to meet for the fight

3. White clay Cave where sea was

Cave Rain

Cave. Rain. Camp of tribe. Boomerangs. People.

4. One tribe who come to fight the other because they had made too much rain by putting the lcay, mixed with water, into the sea in the cave.

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

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Lardil Austlang: G38 - Lardil Glottolog: lard1243

Notes: 29.06.25 PK: Actual object is probably in UQ museum. This was from a photo sent to PK by Ray Kerkhove, see Endnote entry: Millard, A. 1951. Letter 18 November 1951. In Anthropological Society of Queensland records, edited by State Library of Queensland. OMFR/5/1-3.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly