CPM1958P102F6B

Title: A message stick from Bathurst Island reproduced by Mountford (1958)

Description: Fig. 6B is a purunkita sent by an old man, Tjamalampua, to another old man, Tipumbriaria, in Bathurst Island, asking him to bring many aborigines to the forthcoming pukamuni ceremony at Melville Island. The cross-lines, a, indicate the required number of men. [102]

Message: «All the appropriate men are summoned to Sorry Business on Melville Island»

Date Created: 1954

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

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: NT

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

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with the Bathurst Island

Cultural region: TopEnd_tiwi

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: purunkita

Semantic domains: sd_ceremony_funeral

Sources:

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

Source types: book article

Coordinates: 11°41'38.000400"S,130°25'47.701200"E  (-11.693889, 130.429917)

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Bathurst Island

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly