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Object Number 96-25-70/49486.2
Display Title Message stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, carved wood, rectangular, incised designs, flat base, curved, burnt? ends
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Queensland
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 7.2 × 2.4 × 0.9 cm (2 13/16 × 15/16 × 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49486.2
Credit Line Gift of Alexander Agassiz, 1896
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1896)
Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz (1896)

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