AMus_E013409

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Wooden, oblong shaped with squared off ends. Edges notched, zig-zag and lozenge shaped designs are incised on both sides of stick [ref LC]; Condition: Complete [ref LC].

Creator of Object: Sender: Andy Mus pdf from 24.01.2023: "Message or letter stick, made by "Andy", a Flinders Is. native a syphilic in the Cooktown hospital, given my by Dr. Korhum [PK: Kortüm] 1898 [ref reg];"

Date Created: 1898

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Mutumui Austlang: Y63.1 - Barrow Point Glottolog: gugu1255

Notes on linguistic areas: The sender's Country is Flinders Island

Dimension 1: 65mm Dimension 2: 16mm

Source types: museum collection

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

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013409

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 14°11'6.698400"S,144°15'53.301600"E  (-14.185194, 144.264806)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Flinders Island, Queensland

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=3437&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Notes: REGISTER

Date: 24 March 1905

Name or Description: Message or letter stick made by "Andy" a Flinders Is. native and syphilitic in the Cooktown Hospital, given me by Dr. Kortüm 1898

Locality: ​x​xxxxxx

How Acquired: Purch.

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

Estimated or Market Value: S.​42

Destination:

Remarks:

OTHER NOTES

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman