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