PMH305470_D3450_2

Title: Message sticks in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH online catalogue: "Message sticks" INVENTORY DESCRIPTION: "Carving, wood, flat, rectangular, incised X and line designs, white pigment?"

Date Created: 1929

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: unknown

State/Territory: Northern Territory

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yolngu Austlang: N117.1 - Murngin Glottolog: yuul1239

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: 88mm Dimension 2: 21mm Dimension 3: 7mm

Materials: pigment?, wood

Techniques: carving

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1929

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 30-54-70/D3450.2

Collector: COLLECTOR: W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930); SELLER: W. Lloyd Warner (1930)

Coordinates: 12°06'12.801600"S,134°54'39.398400"E  (-12.103556, 134.910944)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Milingimbi (likely site of collection by Warner who was at Milingimbi at this time)

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/457926?ctx=3e68694f7a6bb4fa723c571f54d7a481b0b532da&idx=4

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 (2004.24.33797.2); OBJECT DESCRIPTION 3 Message sticks. (T1935, S11866) Burger '96.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman