AMus_E013401

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Cylindrical shaped stick, slightly bent, rounded ends. Irregular incisions on surface [ref LC]; Condition: complete. [ref LC].

Creator of Object: AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Maker: A koko-warra boy at the 8 mile, Cooktown [ref reg]; Made by kokowara native, Princes Charlotte Bay (ref. old gallery label) [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; ...at the 8 mile, Cooktown [ref reg]; The 8 mile, Cooktown, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 102mm Dimension 2: 16mm Dimension 3: 14mm

Source types: museum collection

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

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013401

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 coordinated for Cooktown, Queensland, per Google maps.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3428&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Notes: AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Part of message involving E.13403-4 [ref LC];"

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: AMus_E013403, AMus_E013404