Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago
Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick 9 1/4" long, cylindrical, of whites wood, black etched ornamentation = stain(?)
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: 234.9mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 1905
Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 89615 Catalog Number: 89615.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/1321174
Media Files:
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman