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