Title: Message sticks in the Peabody Museum Harvard
Description: PMH online catalogue: "Message sticks" INVENTORY DESCRIPTION: "Carving, wood, flat, rectangular, incised designs, V notches at both edges" PMH Excel spreadsheet description: "Message sticks"
Date Created: 1929
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Subtype: unknown
State/Territory: NT
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Australia, Northern Territory, Arnhem Land (Northeast) Culture/Period: Yolngu
Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem
Dimension 1: 109mm Dimension 2: 30mm Dimension 3: 7mm
Materials: wood
Techniques: carving
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: 1929
Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 30-54-70/D3450.1
Collector: COLLECTOR: W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930); SELLER: W. Lloyd Warner (1930)
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/457925?ctx=3e68694f7a6bb4fa723c571f54d7a481b0b532da&idx=3
Notes: PK: This item was included in the spreadsheet provided by Diana Zlatanovski at the PMH but could not be found in the online catalogue of the PMH. 25.3.24 NR: in recent search - the item has been listed online. This item is also listed in PMH as a Photograph (B&W, item on the right) taken 1996 (2004.24.33797.1); OBJECT DESCRIPTION 3 Message sticks. (T1935, S11866) Burger '96.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman