BM_Oc1895_337

Title: A message stick from North Queensland held in the British Museum

Description: British Museum description: Message stick made of wood. Accompanying sketch: N. Queensland. Flat slip of soft pale reddish wood pointed off to a round point at each end. On both sides it is covered by incised zig-zag lines. Mulgrave Blacks. Message Stick."

Date Created: 1895

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Queensland (North)”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 200mm Dimension 2: 29mm Dimension 3: 8mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1895

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1895,-.337

Collector: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks Purchased from (previous owner/ex-collection): W Charles Handley Acquisition notes: "Part of a small collection of Australian Aboriginal objects from north Queensland which Franks purchased from W Charles Handley of Cairns in September 1895."

Media copyright: The British Museum British Museum Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

URL institution: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=506976&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&sortBy=fromDateDesc&page=1

IRN: EOC8753

Notes: Additional IDs: Oc1895C3.337 (old CDMS no.) PK: No more images to request from BM. 28.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman