MusV_X_072028

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

Description: 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. 72028. Message stick. Locality: Australia" MusV object description: "Wood. Cylindrical, pointed at both ends and incised with patterns."

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: 110mm Dimension 2: 10mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 72028; X 072028

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) Unknown acquistion method. MusV data: "X 072028, 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