RMV1321_13

Title: A message stick held in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde

Description: paspoort, "marben" RMV Catalogue: "Boetnaald van lichtgeel hout, met ingebrande versiering. Boetnaald voor netten.)" Translation: "Net-mending needle of light yellow wood, with burnt-on decoration. Net-mending needle" However, original Dutch card file reads: "Korte aanduiding: Paspoort (marben) Beschrijving: ellyptisch bruin houten plankje, de eene zijde effen, de andere met drie effen oregelmatig vierkante vlaken en overigens met shuine ruggetjes. Afmetingen: L. 13,8 br. 1,8cm. Literature: I.A.f.E. Bd. XVI, pl V, fig. 7. [PK: Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie=Clement, Emile. 1904. "Ethnographical notes on the Western-Australian Aborigines: With a descriptive catalogue of a collection of ethnographical objects from Western Australia by J.D.E Schmeltz." Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 16 (1/2):1-29.] Datum: Sept. 1901" Description from Clement (1904): "141. Marben, passport. being an elliptic thin slat of darkbrown wood; one side grooved, with exception of three smooth area's. Lg. 13,8; br. ± 1,8cm. [Inv. Nos. 1321/13] Gnamotribe: Oakover & Nullagine. Pl V, fig. 7."

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional_context

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Nyamal Austlang: A58 - Nyamal Glottolog: nyam1271

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

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: marpan ('marben') = passport

Dimension 1: 138mm Dimension 2: 18mm

Materials: wood

Sources:

Clement, Emile. 1904. "Ethnographical notes on the Western-Australian Aborigines: With a descriptive catalogue of a collection of ethnographical objects from Western Australia by J.D.E Schmeltz."

Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 16 (1/2):1-29.

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde object identifier: RMV 1321-13

Coordinates: 21°18'2.599200"S,119°42'33.098400"E  (-21.300722, 119.709194)

Media copyright: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Nyamal

URL institution: https://volkenkunde.nl/collections/record.aspx?so=H4sIAAAAAAAEAO29B2AcSZYlJi9tynt_SvVK1-B0oQiAYBMk2JBAEOzBiM3mkuwdaUcjKasqgcplVmVdZhZAzO2dvPfee--999577733ujudTif33_8_XGZkAWz2zkrayZ4hgKrIHz9-fB8_In6NX_PX-DV-jf-bHvzE8xv9WvTPt49Xq9__pJrl40l-MX07zYtR-pN53RTV8rOdMf83Sk_WZbuu88-W-bqts3KUvlxPymL6e-XXb6q3-fKz5bosf12A_Y1e51k9nX85-el82v5W9MFv-Ps3_MmbvF78xr__uimWF_Jl8xvKX0-q6m3zm8jvx9SwuMzNV1_ksyLTl54WF8VqPfnN5a-TqiwJBuHY_Hq__3lRN-1vpP08K_Jy9uv-_pdFfvUb__6rOr8sqnWDv37d37-p6vbX12a_-e_fVqvP8-qizs6L_AUN_zfFJzzOdW3_frZeUi_8_W-CvwV1-XNaLVZl_k4G_Bv-_u08b-T334i-sugZWv-avw49vyY9v_av_Wv_mvz8Br_l2bLN62VWNp_8JCH45nqVN5iRoc9_K_f5axrKl_WMpqn7hRCbXsEXf8iv-fq6afPF2KPX-PN8mdfFdPy8aNo_YPd73zvxxyEDHKXfFFN8__u3wuF1ARzeEAmzdb1uQOBvEoc_8BYouO--eRpgLn69Xxtc8C2Z-8-ILX4MH_y6_wfJY2zCwTe__mVWrvPf__f_NX4DAMD_f81fTc3_DxXhX_d_p1-iTNF_Gc-v-6s67S2vxNv_er8B_fObfvmTX4yPj4_p_yf4-ev9GNrKh09-vcT9cfLr_Ybuj89_7DeiP37sN8Y_vwn98-vgz1txws8yN4Lmv97vXxAWDSmE4gf5b_D7XwqkX-fX-DV-60jn3-PJ-w1-gx_7TZUqoNWvg4Hdajg_y4y9eTiRzu1wfrNfQzgK__91MEU_1zKycSi_RbdnO47fXKcFz6_Pc2Q07q_zW0amE2_9-hi7zCM3i5AJzX7st8A_vyX98xv_Wr_-b25eYci_WRcdtP910X4I2K_7-y_pt1_39yfZW_yavybrA7aOnnT9er81ffAbfDnNs2Xxj_61vyY6Zgx-AzT-bemf5HjdgID07W_4_wDL8m-UzAcAAA2

URL source 1: https://archive.org/details/international16inte

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly