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Title: A message stick listed on eBay

Description: Message stick sold on ebay

Item type: message stick from a private sale

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Western Desert”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Notes: Correspondence from oldtimemilkman (14 Sept 2017): Hello My parents were well travelled and acquired all of what I sell. And one of their parents before them. Some are catalogued with their provenance and some are not. This came originally from one of my grandfathers collection so it would be at least early 20th century when it was collected. I'm 78 years old and my parents died a few years ago in their 90's. All that was written on this was Western Desert WA and it was written in my grandfathers hand writing. I'm sorry that I can't provide anything further. Sincerely John

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly