PMH962570_49486_1

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Ornament, carved wood, rectangular, flat base, incised cross lines, curved, burnt ends

Date Created: 1896

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Queensland

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

Dimension 1: 103mm Dimension 2: 23mm Dimension 3: 9mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1896

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 96-25-70/49486.1

Collector: Donor: Alexander Agassiz (1896) Collector: Alexander Agassiz (1896)

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

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

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh