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
Media Files:
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman