MARKK1025_05

Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum)

Description: MARKK register: "Botenstock" (Google translate: Botenstöck = "Messenger stick")

Date Created: 1905

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 “Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Date collected: 1905

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum) object identifier: 1025:05

Collector: Donor/Seller: H. Krims

Media copyright: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum)

URL institution: https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-bis-1920.pdf

Notes: 8.3.24 NR: collecting institution URL leads to "List 1: COLLECTION Oceania until 1920 (PDF)". You'll have to search for the item number.

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman