PMH9677170_4661

Title: A message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: "Wooden incised message stick 7 1/2" long"; INVENTORY DESCRIPTION: "Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical with tapered ends, incised design, cracked"

Date Created: 1967

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Western Australia

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

Dimension 1: 189mm Dimension 2: 14mm Dimension 3: 14mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 967-71-70/4661

Collector: Sold By: Dr. Stephen Williams (12/12/1967) Collector: Russell H. Harris

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/

Notes: 25.3.24 NR: LABEL ON OBJECT 967-71-70/4661; W. Australia / message stick

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh