MAAC_E1907_568

Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Description: A spindle shaped message stick of wood with incised designs

Item type: message stick in a collection

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

Dimension 1: 182mm Dimension 2: 12mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology object identifier: E 1907.568 (MAA: AR 1908.832)

Collector: Andrews, James Bruyn [donor]

Media copyright: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

URL institution: https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/550050/

Notes: 24.11.23 NR: According to MAA records: "Context: Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database (Bio) J.B.Andrews Esq.; Description: A spindle shaped message stick of wood"

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman