UNIMUS_UEM22859

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

Description: Catalog text: 22859. "Budstikke" et cylinderformet træstykke i enderne tilspidset, 30 cm. lang, 3,5 cm. i tværsnit, med indridsede figurer av forskjellig form; indenfor figurernes konturlinjer prikker tæt i tæt. "Budstikkens" figurtegn kunde ikke tydes av den gamle mand som lavet den paa opfordring av John Olsen, men tegnene skulde svare til dem som i "gamle dage" blev brukt paa budstikker. Nordvestaustralien. <anm>III, 13-14.</anm> English machine translation: 22859. "Budstikke" a cylindrical piece of wood tapered at the ends, 30 cm. long, 3.5 cm. in cross-section, with incised figures of various shapes; within the contour lines of the figures dots close together. The "Budstikken's" figure could not be deciphered by the old man who made it at the request of John Olsen, but the signs were supposed to correspond to those used in the "old days" on bidstiks. Northwest Australia. <note>III, 13-14.</note>

Message: \"Budstikken's\" figure sign could not be deciphered by the old man who made it at the request of John Olsen, but the signs were to correspond to those used in the \"old days\" on tenders ("\"Budstikkens\" figurtegn kunde ikke tydes av den gamle mand som lavet den paa opfordring av John Olsen, men tegnene skulde svare til dem som i \"gamle dage\" blev brukt paa budstikker.)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: replicative_traditional

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

Dimension 1: 300mm Dimension 2: 35mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM22859

Collector: John Olsen purchased by John Olsen, who acquired the items during a stay at a whaling station

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/b87594c2-5f25-4aa6-9d8a-5aa61a98bb51

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

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman