WCMS1912_01_1067

Title: A message stick held in the World Culture Museums, Sweden (Statens museer för worldkultur)

Description: WCMS online catalogue (Google translate): "letter stick / message stick - Letter stick made of wood with strongly marked zigzag notches."

Date Created: 1910

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem WCMS online catalogue: "Acquisition in field - 1910[?]; Acquisition by the museum - 1912."

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: Western Australia

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Australia, Western Australia”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Dimension 1: 102mm Dimension 2: 13mm Dimension 3: 11mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: cut

Date collected: Acquisition in field - 1910[?]; Acquisition by the museum - 1912

Institution/Holder file: World Culture Museums, Sweden (Statens museer för worldkultur) object identifier: 1912.01.1067

Collector: Laurell, Yngve (1882 - 1975)

Media copyright: World Culture Museums, Sweden (Statens museer för worldkultur)

URL institution: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1831022

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman