UNIMUS_UEM12556

Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Cultural History, Norway (Kulturhistorisk museum, KHM)

Description: Catalog text: 12556. Budstikke fra Roebuck Bay i Vest Australien, - anvendt for at tilsige til at møde ved Corrobboree. Australien. <anm>III, 11.</anm> English machine translation: 12556. Messenger from Roebuck Bay in Western Australia, - used to promise to meet at Corrobboree. Australia. <note>III, 11.</note>

Message: used to promise to meet at Corrobboree (anvendt for at tilsige til at møde ved Corrobboree. Australien)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Roebuck Bay, Western Australia

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM12556

Collector: Cand. philos. K. Dahl Collection, prepared by Cand. philos. K. Dahl during his Expedition to Australia (From Wikipedia - Knut Dahl (28 October 1871 – 11 June 1951) was a Norwegian zoologist and explorer who made important bird collections in northern Australia)

Coordinates: 18°07'0.001200"S,122°16'0.001200"E  (-18.116667, 122.266667)

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Roebuck Bay, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/39d1d293-23fa-45b0-8b56-0954c30eb811

Notes: 16.11.23 NR: all info in English has been machine translated from Norwegian (Google translate).

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: UNIMUS_UEM9028, UNIMUS_UEM9029