Title: A message stick held in the Horniman Museum and Gardens (UK)
Description: Fairly uniformly cylindrical medium-brown wood, both ends round and tapered. Zigzagging lines, alternately thinly hatched, incised lengthways over entire surface of wood. These are dark, possibly from black pigment rubbed into incisions. Small pale round sticker on centre, very faint handwriting barely visible on it.
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 (according to accession registers: "South Queensland, Australia")
Dimension 1: 273mm Dimension 2: 17mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: Horniman Museum and Gardens object identifier: 33.98
Collector: Wright, A. R., A. R. (according to accession registers: "previous owner - Wright, Mrs")
Media copyright: Horniman Museum and Gardens
URL institution: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/33.98
Notes: 21.11.23 NR: Note that this collection also has downloadable json files that are more informative than what's viewable online.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman