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 notches and with red paint in the notches on the front. On the back without pattern."
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: WA
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with the Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia.
Dimension 1: 363mm Dimension 2: 24mm Dimension 3: 6mm
Materials: wood
Techniques: cut; colored
Date collected: Acquisition in field - 1910[?]; Acquisition by the museum - 1912
Institution/Holder file: World Culture Museums, Sweden (Statens museer för worldkultur) object identifier: 1912.01.1068
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/1039357
Media Files:
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman