Title: A message stick held in the Manchester Museum
Description: Description #1: Wooden cigar-shaped message stick. Rectilinear incised lines carved onto surface. One end pointed, the other is rounded. Description #2: Message stick or 'passport'. A cigar shaped piece of wood decorated with zig-zag grooves and shallow holes.
Date Created: 1942
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition date: 1941-1942
Institution/Holder file: The Manchester Museum object identifier: 0.6166 (T.1994)
Collector: Jacoby Loan Collection
Media copyright: The Manchester Museum
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. This record is repeated and listed as: T.1994 (0.6166) and 0.6166 (T.1994), hence the two different descriptions.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman