RJM18425

Title: A message stick held in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany

Description: RJM register: "Botenstab" (Google translate: Messenger staff)

Date Created: 1906

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as "Northern Australia". It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 217mm Dimension 2: 20mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: kerbschnitzerei (google translate: chip carving)

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Donated: November 2, 1906

Institution/Holder file: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum object identifier: Inventar-Nr. (Inventory No.) RJM 18425 Konvolut-Nr. (Lot No.) RJM 1906/18

Collector: Georg Küppers-Loosen (1860-1910)

Media copyright: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

Notes: 2.8.24 NR: Gewicht: 58 g. bis 02.11.1906, Georg Küppers-Loosen (1860-1910); von 02.11.1906, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt (Donation); Laut einer ersten Recherche von Yagmur Karakis (2020 bis 2022 Forschungsvolontärin am RJM) hat Georg Küppers-Loosen Objekte und Individuen aus den folgenden Konvoluten möglicherweise selbst vor Ort angeeignet: 1902/17, 1906/18, 1910/04. (Google translate: Weight 58g. until November 2, 1906, Georg Küppers-Loosen (1860-1910); from November 2, 1906, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Cultures of the World (donation); According to initial research by Yagmur Karakis (research trainee at the RJM from 2020 to 2022), Georg Küppers-Loosen may have acquired objects and individuals from the following collections himself on site: 1902/17, 1906/18, 1910/04.)

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman