NMA1985_0060_0782

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