FMC91346

Title: A message stick held in the Field Museum Chicago

Description: FM online catalogue: "Message stick". Flat, thin, of hard dark wood. Tapering to either end. Either side arrow (?) decorated (?) with short incised lines.

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: 450mm Dimension 2: 77mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 1907

Institution/Holder file: Field Museum object identifier: 91346 Catalog Number: 91346.nosub[1] Accession Number: [1018] W. D. Webster (Purchase) Other Numbers: 109

Collector: W. D. Webster

Media copyright: Field Museum

URL institution: https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/1322508

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman