AMus_E013405

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Wooden, flat, oblong-shaped stick with squared off ends. Irregular cross-hatching incised on both sides of stick [ref LC]; Condition: complete. Ink stains [ref LC].

Creator of Object: Mus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Message or letter stick, made by a Cooktown boy, who calls it yoko (tree)-kapan (mark) [ref reg];"

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: yoko (tree)-kapan (mark)

Dimension 1: 77mm Dimension 2: 17mm

Source types: museum collection

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

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013405

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 15°28'33.398400"S,145°14'45.099600"E  (-15.475944, 145.245861)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Cooktown, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3432&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman