AMus_E013418

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: Messenger or letter stick [ref reg]; Message stick [ref LC] Cylindrical, covered with incised, deep hatching [ref LC]; Condition: Complete. Mould [ref LC].

Date Created: 1903

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 Mapoon, Cape York, Queensland, Australia. AMus pdf from 24.01.2023: "REGION: Cape York; Burketown [crossed out] 1905, " Mapoon" written underneath this [ref reg]; Marked Mapoon (Batavia R) on specimen [ref reg]; Mapoon, Batavia River, Queensland [ref LC]"

Dimension 1: 168mm Dimension 2: 17mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1903 Accession date: 24 March 1905

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E013418

Collector: Purchased by: Roth, Dr Walter Edmund

Coordinates: 12°01'25.201200"S,141°54'17.899200"E  (-12.023667, 141.904972)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mapoon, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=2758&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman