Change over time

Catalogued

Message stick

Made by
Aboriginal Australian peoples, many language groups
Year
pre-contact; documented from 1880s
Field
Physical objects
Kind
Physical object
Room
Change over time — Placed by reading its description, not yet studiedCould also hang in: Lives and events
Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

55 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Kelly 2020, Australian Aboriginal message sticks, Journal of Material Culture

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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