PMH326870_D4054

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical with tapered ends, incised design

Date Created: 1896

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 Nullagine District, Pilbara, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 170mm Dimension 2: 13mm Dimension 3: 13mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4054

Collector: Sold By: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (4/11/1932-5/9/1932) Collector: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1896-1931)

Coordinates: 21°53'16.800000"S,120°06'25.200000"E  (-21.888, 120.107)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Nullagine, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Nullagine is an old goldrush town in Western Australia's Pilbara region. It is located on the Nullagine River 296 km south-east of Port Hedland and 1,364 km north-north-east of Perth on the old Great Northern Highway.

URL institution: https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/

Notes: 27.02.2024 PK: No new information from PMH accession documents

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly