UNIMUS_UEM40794

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

Description: Catalog text: 40794. Budstikke av rødbrunt jerntre, 41 cm. lang. English machine translation: 40794. Message stick of reddish-brown iron wood, 41 cm. long.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Port Keats, Northern Territory, Australia

Dimension 1: 410mm

Materials: reddish-brown iron wood, wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM40794

Collector: conservator johs. falkenberg (falkenberg, johannes) From Wikipedia - Johannes Falkenberg (1 April 1911 in Oslo - June 3, 2004, same place) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.

Coordinates: 14°14'20.000400"S,129°31'18.998400"E  (-14.238889, 129.521944)

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Wadeye (formally Port Keats), Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Wadeye, is a town in Australia's Northern Territory. It was formerly known (and is still often referred to) as Port Keats, a name originating from Port Keats Mission, which operated from 1935 (originally at a different location, known as Wertnek Nganayi) until 1978.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/64d73a0f-7d55-4cd7-87da-a754b945b02b

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