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.
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: 0.5285/2
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