GML_Au634

Title: A message stick from Western Australia held in the Grassi Museum Leipzig

Description: Message stick inviting for a ceremony from the collection of the Grassi Museum Leipzig, catalogue Au 634

Date Created: 1904

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Western Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 175mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date 1904

Institution/Holder file: The Grassi Museum Leipzig object identifier: Au634

Collector: Bought from: Webster

Media copyright: The Grassi Museum Leipzig

Notes: Botenstäbe wurden benutzt, um Teilnehmern an bestimmten Zeremonien einzuladen. Es sind kurvige Objekte, deren Nuts sorgsam eingeritzt wurden. Ihre Bedeutung war geheim und nur den Berechtigten bekannt. Translation: "Message sticks were used to invite the participants to certain ceremonies. They are curved objects with carefully carved patterns on them. Their meaning was kept secret and only revealed to the immediate participants." (Transl: Olena Tykhostup)

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Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup