UNIMUS_E_005014

Title: A message stick held in the University Museum of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen, UM)

Description: Protocol text: Budstikke av lyst tre. Smal, flat, avlang form, avkuttet i begge ender. Begge sider dekorert med et innbrent mønster i skråstreker og krysslinjer. "Budstikker som blir sendt mellom stammene for å innkalle folk til seremonier". L: 31,7 cm, Br.: 4,7 cm. Nord-Australia, Port keats. English machine translation: Bud stick of light wood. Narrow, flat, oblong shape, cut off at both ends. Both sides decorated with a burnt-in pattern in slashes and cross lines. "Messengers sent between tribes to summon people to ceremonies". L: 31.7 cm, Width: 4.7 cm. Northern Australia, Port keats.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Port Keats, Northern Australia.

Dimension 1: 317mm Dimension 2: 47mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: University Museum of Bergen object identifier: E_005014

Coordinates: 14°14'20.000400"S,129°31'18.998400"E  (-14.238889, 129.521944)

Media copyright: University Museum of Bergen

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Wadeye (formally Port Keats), Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Wadeye, is a town in Australia's Northern Territory. It was formerly known (and is still often referred to) as Port Keats, a name originating from Port Keats Mission, which operated from 1935 (originally at a different location, known as Wertnek Nganayi) until 1978.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/060020e1-3669-4f70-b94d-d6a822fd8013

Notes: 20.11.23 NR: all info in English has been machine translated from Norwegian (Google translate)

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman