UNIMUS_UEM30707

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

Description: Catalog text: 30707. Liten brevstav med innskårne hakk. (Cfr. E. Mjøberg: Beiträge zur... Tafel 3; nr. 4.) - Lengde: 18 cm. Australia (Cap York halvøen). English machine translation: 30707. Small letter stick with incised notches. (Cfr. E. Mjøberg: Beiträge zur... Tafel 3; no. 4.) - Length: 18 cm. Australia (Cap 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: 180mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM30707

Collector: consul n.e. mjøberg, Stockholm, who for his services to the museum is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Olaf of the 1st class. (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/59bd20ff-ae9b-43b9-bfed-3325c1ce7695

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