MARKK_E_2521

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

Description: MARKK register: "Botenstab" (Google translate: "messenger staff")

Date Created: 1895

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: New South Wales

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

Date collected: 29th November 1895

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum) object identifier: E 2521

Collector: Donor/Seller: R. Nelles (Steward)

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