AMNH80_0_4430A

Title: A message stick held in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Description: AMNH register: "Message stick"

Date Created: 1926

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (accession number 1926-12)

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Western Australia

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia/Western Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 230mm Dimension 2: 15mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: 1926

Institution/Holder file: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) object identifier: CATALOG NUMBER: 80.0/4430A ACCESSION NUMBER: 1926-12

Collector: DONOR: STROSS, LUDWIG

Media copyright: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Notes: 9.4.24 NR: summary sheet re this item was provided via email by Barry Landua (Systems Manager / Manager of Digital Imaging; Division of Anthropology; American Museum of Natural History) on 30.3.24.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman