PMH513370_3227

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description:Wood message stick Ornament, carved wooden stick, cylindrical with tapered ends, incised/punctate

Date Created: 1951

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 166mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 14mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 51-33-70/3227

Collector: Exchange participant: Museum of South Australia (06/26/1951) Intermediary: Herbert M. Hale (06/26/1951) Collector: Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition CREDIT LINE: Exchange with South Australia Museum, 1951

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

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/79724?ctx=88b9acaa0e3fec76277bfb0f403ddb7f170560e1&idx=3

Notes: 25.3.24 NR: "LABEL ON OBJECT 51-33-70/3227; a34252 / no data."

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh