PMH234670_D1726

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick, cugina Ornament, carved wooden stick, cylindrical, burned design

Creator of Object: In PMH document PMR-24-142 Kelly 23-46DIST page 45 (museum register) it is described as: "Sent from one family of a tribe to another family"

Date Created: 1922

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is the Kimberley, Western Australia In PMH document PMR-24-142 Kelly 23-46DIST page 45 (museum register) it is described as: "Message stick (cugina) Locality: Kimberley region of Northwest Australia"

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: kukina ("cugina")

Dimension 1: 184mm Dimension 2: 17mm Dimension 3: 16mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1922

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 23-46-70/D1726

Collector: Sold By: Unknown (2/26/1923) Collector: E. Clement (1922) CREDIT LINE Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1923

Coordinates: 16°S,126°E  (-16.0, 126.0)

Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard For rights and reproductions requests, see https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/about/rightspermissions

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Kimberley District, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

URL institution: https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/

Notes: PK: Note that there are other message sticks from Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde with the lexical item "cugina". Some sourced from Nyamal country but others from the Kimberley. 25.3.24: "LABEL ON OBJECT D1726"

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman