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: 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 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 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]"

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°27'57.700800"S,144°26'55.600800"E  (-14.466028, 144.448778)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Centroid coordinates for Mutumui

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman