Title: A message stick held in the National Museum of World Cultures, Netherlands (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - NMVW)
Description: NMVW online catalogue (Google translate): "Message stick - ritual stick made of wood painted on both sides in the colors black, ocher, white and light brown. A white stripe surrounded by thin brown lines runs along the length. Across the width, a white and an ocher stripe in 3 places. The spaces in between are filled with white stripes crossed by light brown stripes against a black background. The whole thing looks like a spearhead with a handle"
Date Created: 1966
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem NMVW online catalogue: "1966-2015"
Item type: message stick in a collection
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.
Dimension 1: 411mm Dimension 2: 52mm
Materials: wood; ocher
Techniques: wood carving; painted
Date collected: Donated: 1.5.2017
Institution/Holder file: National Museum of World Cultures (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - NMVW) object identifier: 7106-576
Collector: Unknown
Media copyright: National Museum of World Cultures (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - NMVW)
URL institution: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1046914
Notes: 19.3.24 NR: when downloading the records list as an Excel sheet, the title listed under this object is "Ceremonial spear" and not a "Message stick" as listed online.
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman