PMH222970_D1699

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: "Letter stick announcing death of relative; Carving, wood, rectangular, incised parallel designs both ends one side"

Message: announcing death of relative

Date Created: 1922

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley; Mary River; West Kimberly

Dimension 1: 163mm Dimension 2: 21mm Dimension 3: 8mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: carving

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1922

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 22-29-70/D1699

Collector: COLLECTOR: Mr. Walter Badenach (1922); DONOR Mrs. Walter Badenach (1922)

Coordinates: 18°43'18.998400"S,126°50'13.999200"E  (-18.721944, 126.837222)

Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Mary River, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Mary River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77141?ctx=802ad406788fbd86f720ec241e44c74f7d99924e&idx=0

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman