Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
Description: Message stick. Physical Description: Long thin cylindrical shaped object, with tapered ends. Chevron and Harlequin patterns filled in with points (small black dots) incised into the wood. Medium brown colour, and the surface of the object is smooth and shiny/polished.
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is unknown. Hence, it cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 300mm Dimension 2: 16mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 26242
Collector: Unknown
Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.26242
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman