BM_Oc2425

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

Description: Message stick, of wood, forked at one end, and having a knob at the other; surface incised with dots and other patterns.

Date Created: 1885

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. Register slip: Extreme N.W. Australia

Dimension 1: 146mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 11mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1885

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc,+.2425

Collector: Donated by: Sir Frederick Napier Broome Curator's comments: "Register slip: Extreme N.W. Australia. See Christy Correspondence: Sketches of items acquired from Sir F Napier Broome 27 April 1885."

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=3268338&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&page=1

Notes: Additional IDs: Oc1885C2.2424-2425 (old CDMS no.) PK: No new images to request from BM. 4.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman