WCMS1920_14_0083

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 - Letters. Bigger than either of the previous two. Plan on one side. In cross-section, i.e. almost semi-circular. The flat surface has shallow stripes. The other long sides of the stick have a continuous herringbone pattern, i.e. zigzag lines across. Length 13.2 cm,. Greatest thickness 1.7 cm, Queensland Australia"

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: 135mm Dimension 2: 18mm Dimension 3: 15mm

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: 1920.14.0083

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/1040010

Notes: 20.3.24 NR: WCMS online catalogue (Google translate): "Litt.: H. Frank, Prayer sticks in Australia. LUr Ethnologle magazine. Vintage 19409 fleet 4-6. P. 328. Berlin 1941. Jfr Y. Laurel/ inv. 1912.1.1062-66 Ur 84 86 Stenar som medel not huvudvärk. [ocr]"

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman