EC1904PL5F4_5

Title: A message stick collected by Emile Clement

Description: Clement (1904): 139. Marben, passport; consisting of a cylindrical piece of yellowish wood, at both ends pointed and with burnt ornamentation: being numerous little holes, partly placed in transverse rows. Lg. 44,5; diam. 3,1 cm. [Inv. No. 1207/20]. Gnalluma-tribe. Pl. V. fig. 12. Serving as legitimation to go fishing at the Coast-Balla-Balla. Compare [E] pg. 38 No. 40. – Walter E. Roth, Op.cit. pg. 136 ❡ 235 (letterstick)

Message: legitimation to go fishing at the Coast-Balla-Balla

Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Ngarluma Austlang: W38 - Ngarluma Glottolog: ngar1287

Cultural region: WA_Pilbara

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: marpan ('marben') = passport

Sources:

Clement, Emile. 1904. "Ethnographical notes on the Western-Australian Aborigines: With a descriptive catalogue of a collection of ethnographical objects from Western Australia by J.D.E Schmeltz."

Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 16 (1/2):1-29.

Coordinates: 21°23'4.200000"S,117°03'48.499200"E  (-21.3845, 117.063472)

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroids for Ngarluma

URL source 1: https://archive.org/details/international16inte

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly