Title: A message stick held in the Manchester Museum
Description: Wooden message stick. Round stick pointed at each end and decorated with fine lines with short scratches at right angles to them. There are also several small holes made by burning.
Date Created: 1938
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: Western Australia
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, West Australia. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 31/05/1938
Institution/Holder file: The Manchester Museum object identifier: 0.5285/1
Collector: Jones, Prof Frederic Wood F.R.S.
Media copyright: The Manchester Museum
Notes: 30.5.24 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