Title: War Message Stick
Description: named_creator
Creator of Object: Harry MAHKAROLLA (Australian, b.c 1890s, d.c 1950s)
Date Created: 1967
Item type: message stick in a collection
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yolngu Austlang: N230 - YOLNGU MATHA Glottolog: yuul1239
Dimension 1: 777mm Dimension 2: 45mm
Materials: feathers, ochres on wood, plant fibre string, resin
Institution/Holder file: The Art Gallery of Western Australia object identifier: 1988/1138
Media copyright: The Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through the Western Australian Government, 1988, The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
URL institution: https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/objects/10472/war-message-stick
Notes: NR: Measurements of 777 x 45mm are @ widest circumference PK: Peter Sutton in 'Politics of suffering' writes: "Harry Mahkarolla (more accurately Makarrwala, c. 1881—c. 1957; figure 14) was born in northeast Arnhem Land. In 1926 when he was around forty-five he appears to have been selected by a group of senior men to act as primary mentor to anthropologist Lloyd Warner (1898-1970; figure 15)" p167 Don Watson in 'The Passion of Private White' wrote: "Harry Mahkarolla of the Wannggurri clan, remembered the last arrivals, the joy and excitement they brought, and after wild sprees on Makassan liquor, fighting an dmuch bloodshed"
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman