WCMS1920_14_0082

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, painted red, with short grooves cut into it, often forming zig-zag lines. (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: Queensland

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

Dimension 1: 94mm Dimension 2: 12mm

Materials: wood; color pigment

Techniques: cut; painted

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: 1920.14.0082

Collector: Mjöberg, Eric Georg (1882 - 1938)

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

URL institution: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1040046

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman