BM_Oc1900_0723_59

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

Description: Message stick of wood, cylindrical, ornamented with incised lines. (British Museum description) Accompanying sketch: "Australia (Queensland). Straight-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

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

Dimension 1: 118mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 12mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1900

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1900,0723.59

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=505572&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&sortBy=fromDateDesc&page=1

IRN: EOC10197

Notes: PK: no new images to request from BM. 1.12.23: NR: Bibliographic references: "Sculthorpe et al. 2015 / Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation (p.175, fig.58); National Museum of Australia 2015 / Encounters. Revealing Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Objects from the British Museum (p.197); Sculthorpe et al 2021 / Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums (p. 113, fig. 11.1)" 1.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman