Title: Message stick mentioned in a letter to R.Hamlyn Harris from Queensland Museum archives
Description: Alroy Downs.
[290] May 3rd 1916
R. Hamlyn Harris Esq.
Director of Qland Museum,
Brisbane.
Dear Sir,
Your letter to hand and contents noted and I am pleased to say I have a good collection of curios for you including a native made dilly bag and message stick besides numerous other things...
tobacco or Pitchery and gorund up Coolibar bark ash. They also let them chew bones to force the teeth through the gum.
As I am coming to Brisbane shortly I will bring the curios along and look forward to an interesting moring looking round.
I am Sir,
Yours faithfully,
F. Story.
Item type: positive text reference
Notes: 04.03.2026 PK: Note that this does not seem to turn up in Vernon. Could not bye found by searching register for items listed on or after 3 May 1916 until 1917 but may have been rejected or exchanged by museum or accessioned much later
Data Entry: Piers Kelly