FMC173162

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick. Hard yellow wood painted at both ends. [ILLUSTRATION] black incised design.

Date Created: Unknown

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with West Australia, Murchison.

Dimension 1: 385mm Dimension 2: 25mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Unknown

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 173162 173162.nosub[1] Accession Number: [1726] J. F. Connelly (Purchase)

Collector: J.F. Connelly

Coordinates: 26°53'34.900800"S,115°57'21.700800"E  (-26.893028, 115.956028)

Media copyright: Field Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Murchison, Western Australia, per Google maps.

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1076463

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman