PMH326870_D4052

Title: Object with the display title "Wooden hairpins" at Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: Online PMH catalogue description: "Ornaments, carved wood, cylindrical, burned/incised design, resin on one" However in PMR-24-142 Kelly 32-68DIST.pdf accession document on p42 this is described as "2 Message stick; collector called it "War Totem" -- From Southern Cross tribes to Lawler tribes"

Message: war totem

Creator of Object: Sender: Southern Cross Tribes Recipient: Lawler Tribes

Dimension 1: 221mm Dimension 2: 11mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4052

Collector: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1896-1931)

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77819?ctx=b142bde7ad8986f0d3d51d213a2814dbb6ff64a3&idx=0

Notes: 27.02.2024 PK: Given the discrepancy between description in online catalogue versus what is in the accession document PMR-24-142 Kelly 32-68DIST.pdf on page 42, it is conceivable that these are hairpins repurposed as message sticks for declaring war. Or it could be collector error.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly