FMC89609

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick 26 3/8" long 2 3/4" wide of thin hard wood. Oval shape. Either side having incised lines.

Date Created: 1905

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

Dimension 1: 670mm Dimension 2: 70mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1905

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 89609 Catalog Number: 89609.nosub[1] Accession Number: [963] W. D. Webster (Purchase)

Collector: W. D. Webster

Media copyright: Field Museum

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1321167

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman