MM0_480

Title: A message stick held in the Manchester Museum

Description: Message stick made of wood. A short stick, pointed at each end and with four notches along one side. Notes on card reads; 'Sent to Mr. Webb, an Albany Naturalist. Notches said to signify 'Webb send tobacco and money to blackman'.

Message: Notes on card reads; 'Sent to Mr. Webb, an Albany Naturalist. Notches said to signify 'Webb send tobacco and money to blackman'.

Date Created: 1898

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, West Australia, Albany.

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date: 20/09/1898

Institution/Holder file: The Manchester Museum object identifier: 0.480

Collector: Brown, A.W.W

Coordinates: 35°01'35.698800"S,117°53'0.700800"E  (-35.026583, 117.883528)

Media copyright: The Manchester Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Albany, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region in the Australian state of Western Australia, 418 kilometres southeast of Perth, the state capital.

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