BM_Oc1903_1215_18

Title: A message stick from Western Australia held in the British Museum

Description: Message stick of pale soft wood, pointed either end, decorated with two incised spiral bands crossing and recrossing, the vacant spaces filled with deeply-incised transverse incisions filled with ochre.

Date Created: 1903

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 “Western Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 310mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 12mm

Materials: ochre, wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1903

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1903,1215.18

Collector: Donated by: Sir William Ingram

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=505177&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&view=list&page=1

IRN: EOC10595

Notes: PK: No additional images to request from BM. 30.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman