PMH326870_D4041

Title: A message stick at the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH online catalogue: "Letter stick" INVENTORY DESCRIPTION: "Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical, incised design"

Date Created: 1916

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 Australia, Western Australia, Mid West, Meekatharra

Dimension 1: 115mm Dimension 2: 11mm Dimension 3: 11mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: 1916

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4041

Collector: COLLECTOR: Penn Museum (1916) SELLER: Penn Museum (4/11/1932-5/9/1932) CREDIT LINE: Museum Purchase, Museum Improvements Fund, 1932

Coordinates: 26°35'44.599200"S,118°29'36.600000"E  (-26.595722, 118.4935)

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

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Meekatharra, Western Australia, per Google maps.

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77808?ctx=c3fb055c6cd93ec9d7f0c1eae8b71119aede04a5&idx=0

Notes: This is in the original catalogue but not in spreadsheet and previously not entered into the AMSD, probably because it is labelled "letter stick" 27.02.2024 PK: No new information in accession documents provided by PMH. 25.3.24 NR: Item has now been added to the online catalogue.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman