Title: A message stick from Australia held in the British Museum
Description: Message stick, of wood, circular in cross-section, incised with burnt designs on both sides.
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 201mm Dimension 2: 70mm Dimension 3: 60mm
Materials: wood
Techniques: pyro-engraved (the term refers to a technique used to decorate wood or other materials with burn marks created with a heated object used to engrave or incise the surface of the object.)
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: unknown
Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: 2020,Q.15
Collector: Acquisition notes: "Found unregistered in the collection."
Media copyright: The British Museum British Museum Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
URL institution: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_2020-Q-15
Notes: 4.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman