NMOD_I_1720

Title: A message stick held in the National Museum of Denmark

Description: NMD online catalogue: "budstikke" (Google translate: "messenger"). NMD online catalogue: "indbrændte buede ornamenter, udhugget, tilspidset i begge ender (Google translate: "burnt-in curved ornaments, carved, tapered at both ends").

Date Created: 1928

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem NMD online catalogue: "Gift, 1928"

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: SA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Cape Thevenard and north Australian Aborigines, South Australia.

Dimension 1: 690mm Dimension 2: 120mm Dimension 3: 38mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: Donated: 1928

Institution/Holder file: National Museum of Denmark object identifier: Item number: I.1720 / Object ID: 62506

Collector: Unknown

Coordinates: 32°08'35.498400"S,133°39'24.501600"E  (-32.143194, 133.656806)

Media copyright: National Museum of Denmark

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Thevenard, South Australia, per Google maps. beachsafe.org.au: Cape Thevenard is a distinctive narrow 3 km long 10 to 20 m high calcarenite capped headland, that separates Bosanquet and Murat bays. The western tip of the cape reaches relatively deep water and was chosen last century as a port. Today it remains the port for Ceduna, the last commercial port until Esperance 1 100 km to the west. The small town of Thevenard and the port facilities are located along the centre to western end of the cape.

URL institution: https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/62506

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman