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Object Number 25-46-70/D2439.3
Display Title Message stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, carved wood, cylindrical with one tapered end, incised/burned designs, linear and dot pattern
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Goldsfields-Esperance / Laverton
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 30 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm (11 13/16 × 5/8 × 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D2439.3
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1925
Provenance
Previous owner Previously owned by Mrs. Walter Badenach (1924)
Collector Unknown (1924)
Seller Unknown (1925)

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