PMH254670_D2439_1

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: "Message stick. Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical with one tapered end, incised/burned designs, one darkened end"

Date Created: 1924

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Western Australia, Goldsfields-Esperance, Laverton

Dimension 1: 260mm Dimension 2: 19mm Dimension 3: 19mm

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1924

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 25-46-70/D2439.1

Collector: SELLER: Unknown (1925) COLLECTOR: Unknown (1924) PREVIOUS OWNER: Previously owned by Mrs. Walter Badenach (1924) CREDIT LINE: Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1925

Coordinates: 28°37'32.700000"S,122°24'7.099200"E  (-28.62575, 122.401972)

Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Laverton, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: "Goldfields–Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located in the south-eastern corner of Western Australia, and comprises the local government areas of Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Kalgoorlie–Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Ngaanyatjarraku, Ravensthorpe and Wiluna. Laverton, originally known as British Flag, is a town in the Goldfields region of Western Australia, and the centre of administration for the Shire of Laverton". PMH online catalogue ahs listed the item under the location of Gold*s*fields-Esperance. Probably a spelling mistake on their end.

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77294?ctx=8906a5c5d846c0f9516aedc726c67065bd1f8033&idx=6

Notes: 26.7.24 NR: LABEL ON OBJECT: D2439.1

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: PMH254670_D2439_2, PMH254670_D2439_3