MM0_2592

Title: A message stick held in the Manchester Museum

Description: Message stick made of wood. Straight sided stick cut from a piece of hard wood and having incised trinagles infilled with dots.

Date Created: 1916

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Victoria

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, Victoria, Sandhurst.

Cultural region: VIC

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 08/02/1916

Institution/Holder file: The Manchester Museum object identifier: 0.2592

Collector: Boyd Dawkins, Prof. Sir William (The University of Manchester)

Coordinates: 38°04'51.301200"S,145°12'18.500400"E  (-38.080917, 145.205139)

Media copyright: The Manchester Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Sandhurst, Victoria, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Sandhurst is an official bounded locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Frankston local government area.

Notes: 29.5.24 NR: information was collected from three very mixed up documents, provided by the Manchester Museum while their online search tool is offline.

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman