WCMS1920_14_0081

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 - Short, narrow wooden stick with a deep groove cut into it, which spirals along the entire length of the stick. Remains of a white substance (limestone) in the gutter. (general catalogue)"

Date Created: 1920

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem WCMS online catalogue: "Mjöberg's second expedition to Australia (1912-1913); Acquisition by the museum - 1920."

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Coleman River​, Queensland, Australia.

Dimension 1: 113mm Dimension 2: 12mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: cut

Date collected: Mjöberg's second expedition to Australia (1912-1913); Acquisition by the museum - 1920.

Institution/Holder file: World Culture Museums, Sweden (Statens museer för worldkultur) object identifier: 1920.14.0081

Collector: Mjöberg, Eric Georg (1882 - 1938)

Coordinates: 15°06'10.800000"S,141°40'9.300000"E  (-15.103, 141.66925)

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

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for the Coleman River's mouth, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Coleman River is a river on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

URL institution: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039974

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman