UOA_ABDUA_5106

Title: A message stick held in the University of Aberdeen (UOA), ABDUA Human Culture Collection

Description: UOA online catalogue: "Message stick - short stick of light-coloured hard wood, pointed at both ends, with zig-zag lines running the length infilled with stab marks"

Date Created: 1927

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 “Melanesia, Australia, Western Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 180mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: Aquisition Date: 1927

Institution/Holder file: University of Aberdeen (UOA) object identifier: ABDUA:5106

Collector: Boyd, Dr T C

Place collected: Perth, WA

Media copyright: University of Aberdeen (UOA)

URL institution: https://calm.abdn.ac.uk/museums/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=ABDUA:5106

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman