UNIMUS_UEM9028

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

Description: Catalog text: 9028. Budstikke; der tilsiger ved at møde for at danse Corrobberee. Roebuck Bay, West Australien. <anm>III, 11.</anm> English machine translation: 9028. Messengers; who augurs by meeting to dance the Corrobberee. Roebuck Bay, Western Australia. <note>III, 11.</note>

Message: Enjoins by meeting to dance Corrobberee (tilsiger ved at møde for at danse Corrobberee)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Roebuck Bay, Western Australia

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Cultural History, Norway object identifier: UEM9028

Collector: Cand. Philos. Knut from Australia and South Africa brought home Collection (From Wikipedia - Knut Dahl (28 October 1871 – 11 June 1951) was a Norwegian zoologist and explorer who made important bird collections in northern Australia)

Coordinates: 18°07'0.001200"S,122°16'0.001200"E  (-18.116667, 122.266667)

Media copyright: Museum of Cultural History, Norway

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Roebuck Bay, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/0061a7e2-2e24-4d02-8895-cb9accfff1f0

Notes: 15.11.23 NR: all info in English has been machine translated from Norwegian (Google translate).

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: UNIMUS_UEM12556, UNIMUS_UEM9029