PMH513370_3229

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Wood message stick Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical tapered one end, burned design, resin

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: 265mm Dimension 2: 19mm Dimension 3: 19mm

Materials: resin, wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 51-33-70/3229

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/79726?ctx=88b9acaa0e3fec76277bfb0f403ddb7f170560e1&idx=5

Notes: PK: Delete? Looks like a hairpin 25.3.24 NR: "LABEL ON OBJECT 51-33-70/3229; a34254 / no data"

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh