PMH11270_83905

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Carving, wood, oblong, flat, incised and punctate designs both sides

Date Created: 1896

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Queensland

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia, Northern Queensland”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 134mm Dimension 2: 25mm Dimension 3: 7mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: carving

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1896

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 11-2-70/83905

Collector: Donor: Dr. William McM. Woodworth (1900-1911) Collector: Dr. William McM. Woodworth (1896-1911) CREDIT LINE: Gift of William McM. Woodworth, 1911

Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard For rights and reproductions requests, see https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/about/rightspermissions

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/89472?ctx=486411b886ed5139d779980569b3c8095de65fa9&idx=0

Notes: 27.02.24 PK: No new information in Peabody original registers

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly