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