Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
Description: Message stick. Physical Description: Clyindrical shaped object, painted a brown/red colour (earthy). The wood is a light colour brown/tan and is very light. There is a continuous fine incised pattern that consists of diagnol lines all over the object. The ends are round but flat and quite rough.
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: 178mm Dimension 2: 15mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 10599
Collector: Donated by: Father Leo Hayes
Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.10599
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman