CPM1958P101F6D

Title: A carved stick reproduced by Mountford (1958)

Description: Secular Fig. 6D is a carved stick whose designs were thought out by the artist as he walked along the sandy beach near our camp. Although not a message stick the illustration is included in the section as an example of how an aboriginal expresses his mental images through the medium of simple wood carving. The horizontal lines, a, a, symbolize the waves breaking on the beach, and the groups of short lines, a pattern of shallow gutters which had been formed on the sandy shore by the fresh water seeping from a nearby lagoon. [107]

Date Created: 1954

Notes on date created: Year of the National Geographic Expedition to Melville Island

Item type: fictional message stick

Subtype: replicative

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Tiwi Austlang: N20 - Tiwi Glottolog: tiwi1244

Cultural region: TopEnd_tiwi

Sources:

Charles P. Mountford (1958). The Tiwi: their Art Myth and Ceremony. London Phoenix Melbourne: Georgian House.

Source types: book article

Coordinates: 11°40'43.784400"S,130°50'7.332000"E  (-11.678829, 130.83537)

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Tiwi

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly