stick
- Museum number
- Oc1900,0723.54
- Description
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Commemorative stick, message stick, of wood, coloured red, ornamented with incised lines.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.60 centimetres
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Width: 1.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip comment:
'Cairns district. Chokay or stick cut to commemorate a fight between Cairns and Mulgrave blacks'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-2016 27 Nov-28 Mar, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Encounters
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1900,0723.54
