BM_Oc1900_0723_55

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

Description: British Museum description: Message stick of wood, cylindrical, ornamented with incised lines. Accompanying sketch: "Australia (Queensland). Cylindrical piece of brown wood – 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

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

Dimension 1: 83mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 14mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1900

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1900,0723.55

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°55'13.501200"S,145°46'14.401200"E  (-16.920417, 145.770667)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Cairns, Queensland, per Google maps.

URL institution: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=505576&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&sortBy=fromDateDesc&page=1

IRN: EOC10193

Notes: PK: No more images to request from BM 30.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman