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English: Australian message sticks. Message sticks were inscribed with notches and strokes whose meaning is codified. They are typically given to a messenger who delivers it to a recipient (often after a long journey). The person who carries the stick is present during the inscribing of the stick, when the message to be delivered is recited orally while it is being inscribed; that messenger is present once again when he delivers both the stick and the oral message. Without this oral delivery most message sticks would not be understood (Howitt, 1889). Cases of message sticks being sent and interpreted without an intermediary are not unheard of but are exceedingly rare in our documentation. The figure shows a message stick from Queensland. The first notch represents the recipient of the stick, Carralinga, the final notch represents the sender, Nowwanjung (Lumholtz, 1889). [1] |
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| Source | Alfred William Howitt (1830 – 1908) |
| Author | Alfred William Howitt CMG, (1830 – 1908) |
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- ↑ (April 2020). "Writing, Graphic Codes, and Asynchronous Communication". Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (2): 727–743. DOI:10.1111/tops.12386.
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