An Aboriginal medium of communication consisting of a piece of wood carved with symbolic patterns, handed from one community to another.
he read the message of the yabber stick with the dignity befitting his position
Example sentencesExamples
- She had seen a "yabber-stick" with notches.
- Settlers in the wilderness, using native messengers, will send a letter placed in a cleft stick, which natives call a yabber stick.
- Sometimes the message would arrive by 'yabber stick'.
- Yabber sticks gave their carrier authority to travel widely in order to call people together for impending ceremonies.
- I have, in travelling over the district, often carried “Yabber-sticks” for the natives.