UQAM15188

Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Description: Message stick. Physical Description: Length of wood, painted brown all over, 180mm long x 30 mm wide, and almost 'D'shaped in profile. It is decorated on the curved surface with incised straight and curved lines, highlighted by white paint.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Hope Vale, Cape York region, Queensland, Australia

Dimension 1: 180mm Dimension 2: 30mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Unknown

Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 15188

Collector: Sourced by: Aboriginal Creations

Coordinates: 15°17'35.401200"S,145°06'33.001200"E  (-15.293167, 145.109167)

Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Hope Vale, Cape York region, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.15188

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman