MusV_X_072026

Title: A message stick from an unknown location in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description, PDF: "A short cylindrical shaped section of wood incised with linear patterns and twine at one end." X 072026, Message stick, Australia, Registered Anthropology Department, Ethnology Bay, Source Unrecorded (Unknown Acquisition Method, Before Aug 1966) Original register: "Date Received. 14.9.66. Reg. no. 72026. Message stick. Locality: Australia"

Date Created: 1965

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (found during a stock check in 1965 and 66)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Dimension 1: 140mm Dimension 2: 20mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 72026

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes: Primary comments: "... found unnumbered in the Ethnology bay during a stock check in 1965 and 66 ... Nos. 71089-72075. (Register Entry - see register 12, p.36)" Registered 14 September 1966 Unknown acquistion method. MusV data: "X 072026, Message stick, Australia, Registered Anthropology Department, Ethnology Bay, Source Unrecorded (Unknown Acquisition Method, Before Aug 1966) "

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski