BM_Oc1981_15_13

Title: A message stick held in the British Museum

Description: Wood message stick, incised design, red pigment. Circular cross section.

Date Created: 1935

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

Dimension 1: 186mm Dimension 2: 24mm Dimension 3: 23mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: incised, pigmented

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1981

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1981,15.13

Collector: Donated by: Dr Cecil John Hackett Curator's comments: "Register 1981: Wood message stick, incised design, red pigment. Circular cross section. AUSTRALIA.

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=489501&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&page=1

IRN: EOC26531

Notes: Additional IDs: Oc1981N15.14 (pre-registration EO3 entry form and record no.) PK: No more images to request from BM. 4.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup