FMC91345

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: Message stick of hard dark thin flattish wood, narrow or tapering to either end. Either side ornamented with with grooved designs.

Date Created: 1907

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: 307mm Dimension 2: 39mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1907

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 91345 Catalog Number: 91345.nosub[1] Accession Number: [1018] W. D. Webster (Purchase) Other Numbers: 108

Collector: W. D. Webster

Media copyright: Field Museum

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1322507

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman