PRM1906_20_69

Title: A message stick held in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Date Created: 1906

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 “Queensland”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 115mm

Materials: animal dung, wood plant

Techniques: notched

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Pitt Rivers Museum object identifier: 1906.20.69

Collector: Field Collector: Unknown, by 1906 Other Owners: Stephen William Silver Sarah Constance Silver (Mrs Stephen William Silver) via Oxford University Museum of Natural History PRM Source: Sarah Constance Silver (Mrs Stephen William Silver) via Oxford University Museum of Natural History, donated March 1906

Media copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum

URL institution: http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID1411.html

Notes: Accession Book Entry - March. Mrs S.W. Silver, Letcomb Manor, Wantage. Specimen from the collection of the late W.S. Silver [added entry indicates to reverse initials] Esq, formerly exhibited in his private museum at Letcomb Manor. The numbers refer to Mr. Silver’s printed catalogue. - Message-stick", Queensland. Other information: See Biographies database for more information on S. W. Silver. [MdeA 12 5 1998] " PK: No new info in PRM print-out

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly