PMH305470_D3450_3

Title: Message sticks in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH online catalogue: "Message sticks" INVENTORY DESCRIPTION: "Carving, wood, flat, rectangular, notches on both sides"

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: 84mm Dimension 2: 22mm Dimension 3: 6mm

Materials: pigment?, wood

Techniques: carving

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1929

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 30-54-70/D3450.3

Collector: Collected: W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930); Donated: W. Lloyd Warner (1930); CREDIT LINE: Museum Purchase, Peabody Museum Association Fund, 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/77618?ctx=3e68694f7a6bb4fa723c571f54d7a481b0b532da&idx=5

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 left) taken 1996 (2004.24.33790 50-3-70/D3450); Image Credit Line: President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman