PMH513270_3308

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Letter stick, wood, worked, incised cross-hatched lines

Date Created: 1951

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Cairns, Far North Queensland, Queensland

Dimension 1: 155mm Dimension 2: 12mm Dimension 3: 12mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: carving

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 51-32-70/3308

Collector: Collector: Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition (06/26/1951) Collector: Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell (06/26/1951) Collector: N.B. Tindale (06/26/1951) CREDIT LINE: Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition, 1951

Coordinates: 16°55'12.000000"S,145°46'48.000000"E  (-16.92, 145.78)

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

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Cairns, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland.

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/84158?ctx=3e487bbb1efb1ae1b663acaf79b4ed9d43c2b485&idx=9

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman