MusV_X_072027

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

Description: MusV object description, PDF: "A rectangular shaped section of wood incised wtih patterns." X 072027, 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. 72027. 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: 80mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 72027

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) Seondary comments: The message stick may be one of three forwarded/donated by Rev. TT Webb from Milingimbi : see File Donations: 1939-1946: list dated 12 April 1946: "Message Sticks (3)". No trace can be found of these or other items in the list (only 4 were registered). See also, X72029 and X72765, possibly also originate with the 1945/6 donation. (Lindy Allen 19/2/2020) Unknown acquistion method. MusV data: "X 072027, Message stick, Australia, Registered Anthropology Department, Ethnology Bay, Source Unrecorded (Unknown Acquisition Method, Before Aug 1966) "

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski