Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard
Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Ornament, carved wood, rectangular, linear designs
Date Created: 1910
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 Yandilm Station, Native Camp, New South Wales, Australia
Dimension 1: 95mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 10mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4011.3
Collector: Sold By: Unknown (04/09/1932-05/09/1932) Collector: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1910)
Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard For rights and reproductions requests, see https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/about/rightspermissions
URL institution: https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/
Notes: 19.09.2024 PK: I suspect this is actually from Yandil station in Western Australia (not Yandilm, NSW). Marking style is typical of message sticks from the Murchison region, WA.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman