Title: A message stick held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
Description: Message stick. Physical Description: The object is long and tapered at both ends. It is a light brown wood with a design pattern burned into the wood consisting of vertical lines with dots running the length of the object on both faces. Severe curvature of stick towards one end - it sticks up.
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is mentioned simply as "Central Australia, Australia". Hence, it cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 290mm Dimension 2: 35mm
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 7609
Collector: Donated by: Mr Corbett
Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.7609
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman