AMus_E013400

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Ku or message stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Oblong shaped stick, rounded ends, flat surfaces. Incised lines at right angles, one side; other side, incised wavy parallel lines [ref LC]; Condition: Complete. Hole through top of stick. Wood splintering on edges [ref LC].

Creator of Object: AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Maker: A Morehead River boy (ref reg) [ref LC];"

Date Created: 1898

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Cooktown, Cape York, Queensland, Australia. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Cape York; Cooktown [ref reg]; Cooktown, Queensland [ref LC]"

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: ku ("ku")

Dimension 1: 112mm Dimension 2: 32mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1898 Accession date: 24 March 1905

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013400

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 15°28'19.898400"S,145°15'7.898400"E  (-15.472194, 145.252194)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Cooktown, Queensland, per Google maps.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3426&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Notes: REGISTER

Date: 24 March 1905

Name or Description: "Ku" or message stick

Locality: ​Morehead R. boy, Cooktown 1898

How Acquired: Purch.

Name of Donor or Seller: Dr. W. E. Roth

Estimated or Market Value: S.​33

Destination: Figs. Bull. 8. Pl. 1. F6 negative v. 2340

Remarks:

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Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman