HMG26_109ii

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

Description: A message stick. The surface is covered with horizontal rows of incised zigzag lines.

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: 116mm Dimension 2: 13mm Dimension 3: 12.9mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1926 (ownership)

Institution/Holder file: Horniman Museum and Gardens object identifier: 26.109ii

Collector: Wallack, Hy. (curator, according to the accession registers)

Media copyright: Horniman Museum and Gardens

URL institution: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/26.109ii

Notes: 21.11.23 NR: Note that this collection also has downloadable json files that are more informative than what's viewable online. Item 26.109 (https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/26.109/) seems to be aggregating all 4 message sticks - HMG26_109i; HMG26_109ii; HMG26_109iii; HMG26_109iv, while indicating that this record is "Four message sticks, decorated with incised lines covering the surface of each."

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: HMG26_109i, HMG26_109iii, HMG26_109iv