message stick

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发音

AU

词形变化

message sticks 复数

别名

message-stick

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A piece of wood, etched with angular lines and dots, traditionally used by Australian aborigines to communicate messages between different clans and language groups.

    澳大利亚

    1889, A. W. Howitt, Australian Message-sticks and Messengers, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 58, page 842, The use of message-sticks is not universal in Australian tribes, and the degree of perfection reached in conveying information by them differs much.

    1956, Charles Pearcy Mountford, American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnheim Land, Art, Myth and Symbolism, page 466, The scattered records of message sticks in the anthropological literature of the last seventy-five years indicate that, in one form or another, they have been, or still are being, used over most of aboriginal Australia.