PMH326870_D4057

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Death message stick. Carving, wood, curved, one end pointed, incised designs and face

Message: Death message stick

Date Created: 1896

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yingkarta Austlang: W19 - Yingkarta Glottolog: ying1247

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Gascoyne, Western Australia. "Gascoyne Tribe" Ingarda is given as a synonym for "Lower Gascoyne Tribe" in Daisy Bates: http://bates.org.au/text/55-140T.html. This would be Yingkarta in the Gascoyne region

Dimension 1: 167mm Dimension 2: 29mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 32-68-70/D4057

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: 24°39'27.201600"S,115°53'56.900400"E  (-24.657556, 115.899139)

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

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Yingkarta

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

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly