PMH326870_D4055

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical with rounded 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 Paynes Find, Mid West, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 130mm Dimension 2: 13mm Dimension 3: 12mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4055

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: 29°15'15.098400"S,117°40'59.498400"E  (-29.254194, 117.683194)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Paynes Find, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Paynes Find, also called Paynes, is a settlement approximately 430 kilometres northeast of Perth in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman