UOA_ABDUA_5107

Title: A message stick held in the University of Aberdeen (UOA), ABDUA Human Culture Collection

Description: UOA online catalogue: "Message stick; charm stick - Cigar-shaped piece of wood, light coloured wood, polished and engraved with zigzags. The colour of the wood is darker at each end. It has three notches at one end and two at the other. The old paper label attached reads "Collected from Aborigines in Broome District of Western Australia.""

Date Created: 1935

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Melanesia, Australia, Western Australia, Broome District

Dimension 1: 245mm Dimension 2: 20mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: Aquisition Date 1/1/1935

Institution/Holder file: University of Aberdeen (UOA) object identifier: ABDUA:5107

Collector: Troup, Dr G A

Place collected: Broome District

Coordinates: 17°57'43.200000"S,122°14'9.600000"E  (-17.962, 122.236)

Media copyright: University of Aberdeen (UOA)

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Broom, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Shire of Broome is one of the four local government areas in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia, covering an area of 55,796 square kilometres, most of which is sparsely populated.

URL institution: https://calm.abdn.ac.uk/museums/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=ABDUA%3a5107&pos=8

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman