FMC132100_2

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago, 2 of 3

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick. Message Sticks Cylindrical billets of wood with incised markings. Used as a memorandum by the messenger of what he has to say. Without the intervention of the bearer the piece of wood has no meaning.

Date Created: 1911

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, McArthur River, Northern Territory, Anula / Yanyuwa.

Dimension 1: 140mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Accession Year: 1911

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 132100.2 Accession Number: [1133] University of Melbourne, Australia (Exchange)

Collector: W. Baldwin Spencer, University of Melbourne (Exchange)

Coordinates: 15°54'0.000000"S,136°40'0.001200"E  (-15.9, 136.666667)

Media copyright: Field Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for the McArthur River mouth near the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The McArthur River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria at Port McArthur, opposite the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands.

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1357386

Notes: 5.6.24 NR: The original FM register is identical for all "132100 1-3" records (3 records).

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman