PRM1917_12_14

Title: A message stick held in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Description: Message stick scored with cross-cuts rubbed in with white and yellow pigment.

Date Created: 1917

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: 160mm

Materials: pigment, wood plant

Techniques: incised, painted

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: 1917

Institution/Holder file: Pitt Rivers Museum object identifier: 1917.12.14

Collector: Field Collector: George Horsfall Frodsham, by 1917 Other Owners: George Horsfall Frodsham Hastings Rashdall PRM Source: George Horsfall Frodsham per Hastings Rashdall, donated 1917

Media copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum

URL institution: http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID1412.html

Notes: Accession Book Entry - Bishop Frodsham (Bishop of N. Queensland). The specimens were given by the Bishop to the Rev. Hastings Rashdall, D. Litt, F.B.A, [Fellow of New College inserted] now Dean of Carlisle, who transferred them to the Museum with the former's consent. - Message-stick, scored with cross-cuts rubbed in with white and yellow pigment, ib. [Queensland]. ?Card Catalogue Entry - Scored with cross-cuts rubbed in with white and yellow pigment. (Frodsham was Bishop of N. Queensland)

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh