MEG_ETHOC_011743

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: "Bâton de communications, strié, pointu aux deux extrémités" (Google translate: "Communications stick, ribbed, pointed at both ends").

Date Created: 1928

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem MEG online catalogue: "End of the 19th century"

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Western Australia, Pidungu or Ngarluma.

Dimension 1: 322mm Dimension 2: 25mm

Materials: ocher, wood

Date collected: 1928

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnography, Geneva (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) object identifier: ETHOC 011743

Collector: Acquired from: Emile Clement, 1928

Coordinates: 21°23'4.200000"S,117°03'48.499200"E  (-21.3845, 117.063472)

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

Notes on coordinates: Ngarluma linguistic area per Bowern’s Google Earth coordinates map. Gnalluma = Ngarluma. Could not locate info re "Pidungu".

URL institution: https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=011743

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