BM_Oc2462

Title: A message stick from Queensland held in the British Museum

Description: Message stick of red wood, incised with lines filled with red and white pigment.

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

Dimension 1: 154mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 13mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: pigmented

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1885

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc,+.2462

Collector: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks Field Collection by: Adolph Peter Goodwin Curator's comments: "Registration slip description, written in 1885?: Australia, Queensland Message stick, made of red wood, with longitudinal lines and diagonal transverse ones, incised and filled with red and white colour. 653. Message stick. Queensland."

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=509565&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&images=true&page=1

IRN: EOC5902

Notes: Additional IDs: Oc1885C2.2462 (old CDMS no.) PK: No more images to request from BM. 30.11.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman