BM_Oc1900_0723_53

Title: A message stick from North Queensland held in the British Museum

Description: Message stick of wood, cylindrical, ornamented with cut lines. (British Museum entry). Accompanying sketch includes this description: "Cylindrical piece of brown wood ornamented with cut lines. Cairns district. Chokay or message stick"

Date Created: 1900

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Djabugay Austlang: Y106 - Djabugay / Tjapukai^ Glottolog: dyaa1242

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Cairns, North Queensland

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: tyukay ("Chokay")

Dimension 1: 112mm Dimension 2: 16mm Dimension 3: 14mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1900

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1900,0723.53

Collector: Purchased through: Rollin & Feuardent Field Collection by: W Charles Handley Curator's comments: "Register slip comment: 'Cairns district. Chokay or message stick'."

Coordinates: 16°55'6.999600"S,145°46'41.199600"E  (-16.918611, 145.778111)

Media copyright: The British Museum British Museum Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Cairns

URL institution: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=505578&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&view=list&page=1

IRN: EOC10191

Notes: PK: Additional BM image requested and linked on 15 November 2016. museum_report: trace term 'chokay' in PM database in order to identify language 30.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman