Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
Description: Message stick. Physical Description: The object is cylindrical in shape and is a medium hardwood that is ight brown in colour, though half of the object is a darker brown (painted). Over the entire object is an incised cross pattern. One of the ends of the stick appears to have been burnt as it is black (charcoal). There is a very small amount of white paint on the object.
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: 176mm Dimension 2: 13mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 10855
Collector: Donated by: Father Leo Hayes
Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.10855
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman