Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
Description: Message stick. Physical Description: The message stick is a cylindrical shape (rounded), of a medium hardwood that is light brown in colour. It has been painted a brown colour (slightly darker). The ends of the object are roughly worked/finished. There is an incised pattern that proceeds over the entire object and consists of sets of three bands of diagonal lines with intersect to form a cross pattern. There is also a chevron type pattern concentrated at towards the ends of the message stick.
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is mentioned simply as "Australia". Hence, it cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 164mm Dimension 2: 19mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 10465
Collector: Donated by: Father Leo Hayes
Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.10465
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman