PMH326870_D4047

Title: Letter stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

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

Date Created: 1902

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, Murchison, Peak Hill

Dimension 1: 187mm Dimension 2: 21mm Dimension 3: 20mm

Materials: pigment, wood

Date collected: 1902

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4047

Collector: COLLECTOR: Penn Museum (1902) SELLER: Penn Museum (4/11/1932-5/9/1932)

Coordinates: 25°38'2.000400"S,118°43'30.000000"E  (-25.633889, 118.725)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Peak Hill, per Google Maps. Wikipedia: "Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia"

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77814?ctx=a30b99c2732b2f4baa9416cc7b03a1fbc48f0499&idx=0

Notes: This is recorded in the original catalogue, but not in the spreadsheet provided by the PMH, 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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman