Title: A message stick held in the Manchester Museum
Description: Message stick made of wood. A cylindrical stick with numerous grooves winding round it spirally, some clockwise and some anti-clockwise.
Date Created: 1901
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: 28/11/1901
Institution/Holder file: The Manchester Museum object identifier: 0.875
Collector: J.J. Leech 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.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman