MEG_ETHOC_011612

Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Ethnography, Geneva (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève)

Description: MEG online catalogue: "Bâton de message" (Google translate: "Message stick"). According to a typewritten copy (PDF) of the original handwritten MEG Inventory: "Passeport de bois rectangulaire, peint en rouge, signes gravés en creux des 2 côtés, tribu Niol Niol" (Google translate: "Rectangular wooden passport, painted red, engraved signs hollow on both sides, Niol Niol tribe").

Date Created: 1927

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem MEG online catalogue: "Early 20th century"

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Western Australia, Kimberley, Dampier Peninsula, Beagle Bay Nyul Nyul (Niol Niol tribe).

Dimension 1: 180mm Dimension 2: 100mm

Materials: ocher, plant fiber, wood

Date collected: 1927

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnography, Geneva (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) object identifier: ETHOC 011612

Collector: Acquired from: Emile Clement, 1927

Coordinates: 16°58'58.101600"S,122°39'54.698400"E  (-16.982806, 122.665194)

Media copyright: Museum of Ethnography, Geneva (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Beagle Bay, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Beagle Bay is a medium-sized Aboriginal community on the western side of the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Beagle Bay was named in 1838 by John Clements Wickham, captain of HMS Beagle.

URL institution: https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=011612

Notes: 12.3.24 NR: MEG's original inventory register - not indexed, is also available and has been uploaded as an image.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman