MusV_X_072032

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

Description: MusV object description, PDF: "Four notched sticks of different shapes bound in bark holder/hair string (register)" X 072032, Message stick, Australia, Registered Anthropology Department, Ethnology Bay, Source Unrecorded (Unknown Acquisition Method, Before Aug 1966)

Date Created: 1965

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

Item type: message stick in a collection

Dimension 1: 260mm Dimension 2: 70mm Dimension 3: 70mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 72032

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes: Primary data: "... found unnumbered in the Ethnology bay during a stock check in 1965 and 66 ... Nos. 71089-72075. (Register Entry - see register 12, p.36)" Secondary comments: identified as a message stick by John Morton – 15/06/1998 Unknown acquisition method MusV data: "X 072032, Message stick, Australia, Registered Anthropology Department, Ethnology Bay, Source Unrecorded (Unknown Acquisition Method, Before Aug 1966) "

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski