UNIMUS_UEM22847

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

Description: Catalog text: 22847. Et avlangt brædt med indridsede strekfigurer, vistnok en "budstikke" 45 cm. lang, med perforeret hul nær den ene ende. Vestaustralien. <anm>III, 13-14.</anm> English machine translation: 22847. An elongated board with incised line figures, probably a "budstick" 45 cm. long, with a perforated hollow near one end. Western Australia. <note>III, 13-14.</note>

Item type: message stick in a collection

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.

Dimension 1: 450mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM22847

Collector: Skipsfører Christensen (delivered by....)

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/46f740ae-694b-404b-bec5-05268afeafba

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

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman