RJM38085

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

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

Date Created: 1926

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Western Australia, Gascoyne to De Grey River

Dimension 1: 172mm Dimension 2: 12mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: schnitzerei; brandmalerei (google translate: carving; pyrography)

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Purchased: 9.2.1926

Institution/Holder file: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum object identifier: Inventar-Nr. (Inventory No.) RJM 38085 Konvolut-Nr. (Lot No.) RJM 1925/15

Collector: E. Clement

Coordinates: 22°S,115°E  (-22.0, 115.0)

Media copyright: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for the Gascoyne region, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The De Grey River is a river located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Notes: 2.8.24 NR: Gewicht: 16 g. bis 09.02.1926, E. Clement; von 09.02.1926, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt (Purchasing). (Google translate: Weight 16g. until 09.02.1926, E. Clement; from 09.02.1926, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Cultures of the World (Purchasing))

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman