NMEO_H0123973

Title: A message stick from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in the National Museum of Ethnology Osaka

Description: NMEO: "Ritual Tool (Message Stick) (Girayyoug (Message Stick))"; "A piece of wood for communication called a message stick. Used to announce the holding of various rituals. The notches on the piece of wood have no meaning by themselves, and the recipient does not know what they mean. Therefore, a messenger is required, and an adult male acting as a messenger meets with the leader of the recipient village and hands it over to convey its meaning."

Date Created: 1984

Notes on date created: This date refers to the date of collection; 1984-10

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: NMEO: "Australia Queensland"; Collection point Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"

Dimension 1: 170mm Dimension 2: 29mm Dimension 3: 13mm

Materials: wood with color

Institution/Holder file: National Museum of Ethnology Osaka object identifier: H0123973

Collector: Shuzo Koyama

Place collected: NMEO: "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"

Media copyright: National Museum of Ethnology Osaka

URL institution: http://htq2.minpaku.ac.jp/infolib/meta_pub/CsvSearch.cgi

Notes: NR: Note that all text in this entry is originally in Japanese and has been translated using Google Translate. NMEO site states that the following texts (trans from Japanese) are relevant to this object: Kobe City Museum ed. 1986 "Hunter's Dream: The World of Australian Aborigines: Exhibited at the National Museum of Ethnology," Kobe: Kobe City Sports Education Corporation. Shuzo Koyama et al., 1992, "Australian Aborigines: 50,000 Years of Hunters and Spirits" (National Museum of Ethnology "Australian Aborigines: 50,000 Years of Hunters and Spirits" Catalog) Osaka: Sankei Shimbun Osaka Head Office. NMEO: "There is a list of specimen names written in English at the time of receipt."

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman