HMG11_172

Title: A message stick held in the Horniman Museum and Gardens (UK)

Description: A message stick, consisting of a piece of bamboo that tapers at one end and is open at the other. It is decorated with a number of pyrograved dots and lines. According to the accession registers: "Message stick, burnt marks"

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Western Australia, Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 212mm Dimension 2: 9mm

Materials: bamboo (according to the accession registers: "prior material: wood")

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1911 (according to the accession registers)

Institution/Holder file: Horniman Museum and Gardens object identifier: 11.172

Media copyright: Horniman Museum and Gardens

URL institution: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/11.172

Notes: 21.11.23 NR: Note that this collection also has downloadable json files that are more informative than what's viewable online.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman