FMC272889

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick. Cylindrical length of light-colored wood with scratched incised design etched into the surface. A portion of the design includes two human figures, one of which is wearing a dress and the other of which is smoking a pipe. With the figures is a three-masted sailing vessel.

Date Created: 1910

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “West Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 180mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1910 (Acquired by Fuller on May 11, 1910) Purchase date: 1958

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 272889 Catalog Number: 272889.nosub[1] Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase) Field Catalogue No. FC-1074

Collector: Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England

Media copyright: Field Museum

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1181808

Notes: 6.6.24 NR: includes an audio file.

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman