Title: A message stick held in the National Museum of Australia
Description: Cylindrical wood stick, truncated ends, linear diamond and diagonal incisions, Northern Aust.
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Northern Aust.”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area. (According to NMA)
Dimension 1: 240mm Dimension 2: 30mm Dimension 3: 30mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: 1985.0060.0782
Collector: Dr Herbert Basedow collection
Media copyright: The National Museum of Australia
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman