BM_Oc1982_01_6

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

Description: Wood message stick with incised design of groups of concentric circles joined by curved lines.

Date Created: 1982

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

Dimension 1: 199mm Dimension 2: 24mm Dimension 3: 20mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: incised

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1982

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1982,01.6

Collector: Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Curator's comments: "Register 1982: Wood message stick, hard, dark red, wood. Incised design of carved lines and circles. Circular in cross section. Marked R3516/1937. NORTHERN AUSTRALIA, 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=488631&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&page=1

IRN: EOC27431

Notes: Additional IDs: R.3516/1937 (Wellcome Collection Number) PK: No more images to request from BM. 5.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman