UNIMUS_UEM30705

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

Description: Catalog text: 30705. Liten, rund stav med innskårne hakk, en såkaldt brev-stav. (Cfr. E. Mjøberg: Beiträge zur... Tafel 3, nr. 3.) Lengde: 18,3 cm; bredde: 1,2 cm. Australia, Cap York halvøen. English machine translation: 30705. Small, round staff with incised notches, a so-called letter staff. (Cfr. E. Mjøberg: Beiträge zur... Tafel 3, no. 3.) Length: 18.3 cm; width: 1.2 cm. Australia, Cape York Peninsula.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

Dimension 1: 183mm Dimension 2: 12mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM30705

Collector: consul n.e. mjøberg, Stockholm, who for his services to the museum is partially st. olavsordenen's knight's cross of the 1st kl. (collected and donated)

Coordinates: 15°S,143°E  (-15.0, 143.0)

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Cape York, Queensland, per Google maps.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/50873291-aed9-4fad-993f-1e01c475ffe6

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