UNIMUS_UEM9029

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

Description: Catalog text: 9029. Budstikke som foregaaende og fra samme Sted. <anm>III, 11.</anm> English machine translation: 9029. Send as above and from the same place. <note>III, 11.</note>

Item type: message stick in a collection

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: UEM9029

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/1bb0cea9-60d9-486f-8bb5-4ee332693723

Notes: 16.11.23 NR: all info in English has been machine translated from Norwegian (Google translate) The following info is listed under the JSON expendable tab for this item (please note that is it not the same as the info listed in the Catalog record): Budstikke; der tilsiger ved at møde for at danse Corrobberee. (Messengers; who augurs by meeting to dance the Corrobberee.) The above info is also listed under record UNIMUS_UEM9028. It could be that this item was the reply to UNIMUS_UEM9028? Or to say that this item was sent from the same place and contained the same message as UNIMUS_UEM9028?

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman

Related Entries: UNIMUS_UEM12556, UNIMUS_UEM9028