PRM1890_38_2

Title: A message stick held in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Date Created: 1890

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.

Materials: wood plant

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Pitt Rivers Museum object identifier: [1890.38.2]

Collector: Field Collector: ?Stafford, by 1890 Other Owners: W. Stafford collection [see biographies] PRM Source: Messrs Mellersh of Godalming [Stafford collection sale, Godalming] Acquired: Purchased 1890

Media copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum

URL institution: http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID1086.html

Notes: JB: In the PRM Catalogue this stick is indicated with the question mark PRM Catalogue: "Accession Book Entry - 1890. 5 March. At a sale of the Stafford Collection at Godalming: An Australian message stick? 1.12.6 [Purchase price also includes 1890.38.1]" PK: No new info in PRM print-out (2019)

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly