PMH20042417266_D2439

Title: A photo of a message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Date Created: 1944

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem; Photograph taken 11/1/1944

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

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

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 2004.24.17266 (D/2439)

Collector: Photo Taken by F.P. Orchard

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

URL institution: https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/

Notes: Compare to other Laverton message sticks collected by Mountford (1938). This was not included the excel metadata provided by Peabody.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly