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Object Number
51-32-70/3308
Display Title
Message stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Letter stick, wood, worked, incised cross-hatched lines
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Queensland
/
Far North Queensland
/
Cairns
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 1.2 x 15.5 x 1.2 cm (1/2 x 6 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
51-32-70/3308 / Cairns District. qu / letter stick
Credit Line
Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition, 1951
Provenance
Collector
Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition
(06/26/1951)
Collector
Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell
(06/26/1951)
Collector
N.B. Tindale
(06/26/1951)
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