MEG_ETHOC_026585

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").

Creator of Object: According to a typewritten copy (PDF) of the original handwritten MEG Inventory: "Bâton-message, bâton de bois à section quadrangulaire, recouvert d'ocre rouge et traits gravés obliques s'entre - croisant. 187 mm long. Don de Melle.Yvonne Cuénod 27 Contamines-Genève, qui a fait le tour du Monde en inspectant les camps de scouts.Les oiijets lui ont été remis en cadeaux au cours de son déjour australien 1956" (Google translate: "Message stick, wooden stick with a quadrangular section, covered with red ocher and oblique engraved lines intersecting each other. 187mm long. Gift from Ms. Yvonne Cuénod 27 Contamines-Geneva, who toured the world inspecting scout camps. The objects were given to her as gifts during her Australian trip in 1956").

Date Created: 1956

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

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, Queensland, Mornington Island, Lardil.

Dimension 1: 190mm Dimension 2: 19mm

Materials: ocher, wood

Date collected: 1956

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Ethnography, Geneva (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) object identifier: ETHOC 026585

Collector: Gift from: Yvonne Cuénod, 1957

Coordinates: 16°30'56.498400"S,139°24'18.201600"E  (-16.515694, 139.405056)

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

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Mornington Island, Queensland, per Google maps

URL institution: https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=026585

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