Title: A message stick held in the British Museum
Description: BM online catalogue: Message stick, of wood. Round in section and sharpened at both ends with incised and pecked decoration.
Date Created: 1920
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 associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 190mm Dimension 2: 23mm Dimension 3: 20mm
Materials: wood
Techniques: incised
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 1942 (Obtained about: 1920)
Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1942,03.3
Collector: Donated by: Mrs B F Buck Curator's comments: "Ornament, message stick?, made of wood. Round in section and sharpened at both ends with incised and pecked decoration." Acquisition notes: "Register information: 'All obtained about 1920'."
Media copyright: The British Museum
IRN: EOC19191
Notes: 30.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman