NMOD_I_5624

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

Description: NMD online catalogue: "budstikke" (Google translate: "messenger"). NMD online catalogue: "tilspidset pind med omviklinger og harpikshoved, indbrændte geometriske ornamenter, tilspidsning, indbrænding, snøring" (Google translate: "tapered stick with wraps and resin head, incised geometric ornaments, taper, inset, lacing").

Date Created: 1955

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem NMD online catalogue: "Purchased, 1955"

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with the Warlpiri west of mission station Yuendumu, C.Australia, Australian Aborigines, Australia.

Dimension 1: 178mm

Materials: plant fibers, resin, wood

Date collected: Acquisition Date: 1955

Institution/Holder file: National Museum of Denmark object identifier: Item number: I.5624 / Object ID: 63691

Collector: Unknown

Media copyright: National Museum of Denmark

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Yuendumu, Northern Territory. Wikipedia: Yuendumu is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia, 293 km northwest of Alice Springs on the Tanami Road, within the Central Desert Region local government area.

URL institution: https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/63691

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman