Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum)
Description: MARKK register: "Botenstab, beschnitzt" (Google translate: "messenger staff, carved")
Date Created: 1932
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.
Techniques: carved
Date collected: 29th January 1932
Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum) object identifier: 32.9:10
Collector: Donor/Seller: Not mentioned
Media copyright: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum)
URL institution: https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-ab-1921.pdf
Notes: 8.3.24 NR: collecting institution URL leads to "List 3: COLLECTION Oceania from 1921 (PDF)". You'll have to search for the item number.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman