BM_Oc1929_0112_12

Title: A message stick from Northern Territory held in the British Museum

Description: Letter-stick, message-stick made of wood.

Date Created: 1929

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 “Northern Territory (Australia)”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 67mm Dimension 2: 6mm Dimension 3: 6mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1929

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1929,0112.12

Collector: Purchased from: Mrs Jessie Sinclair Litchfield

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=3326305&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&page=1

IRN: EOC117530

Notes: PK: No new images to request from BM. 1.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup