Description (CMS Description)

Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes 'Replica of a message stick' [added later] 'bearing burnt in marks'
Event Date 14/6/2018
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)

Event Date 14/6/2018
Author: rachel hand

Context (CMS Context)
Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database.

Register adds 'Although the message stick is in all respects true to pattern it was never actually used but was made for me by a tribal craftsman. The fact being that unless such a article is made of bone (rather unusual with our tribe) it is destroyed as soon as finished with and so is rarely seen by whites. My onl way of getting one in use was would have been when taken it is form the man it protects by force, which for several reasons, of course, I did not care to do.'
Exr. from letter of donor, dated May 25th 1908'
Event Date 15/6/2018
Author: rachel hand