amsd_00957

Title: Message stick listed in Webster (1911)

Description: 108 (13859) Carved wood message stick 17 3/4 inches long. Australia, p113

Date Created: 1911

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

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

Dimension 1: 450mm

Sources:

  • Webster, W. D. 1911. Catalogues of ethnographical specimens. Leicester: Bernard Halliday, Dryden House.

    • Source types: book

    URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/b29011425_0003#page/113/mode/2up

    URL source 2: https://archive.org/stream/b29011425_0003#page/n175/mode/2up/search/message

    Media Files:

    Data Entry: Piers Kelly