FMC89612

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick 16 7/8" long 2 5/8" wide of thin hard wood, oval, and side plain. Other side in designs of shallow grooves. Perforations at one end.

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: 428.6mm Dimension 2: 66.6mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1905

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 89612 Catalog Number: 89612.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/1321171

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman