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)
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