| Coordinates WGS84 | 12°15'S, 136°54'E -12.25, 136.89 |
CPM1956P474F68_AB
Title: A ceremonial message stick in Mountford's "Art, myth and symbolism" (1956)
Description: A ceremonial message stick, possibly from Yirrkala or Oenpelli, depicting "Djunkgao" – a mythical man of significance to the region (per Mountford) – by an unidentified maker.
Date Created: 1948
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem. American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
State/Territory: NT
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Yirrkala or Oenpelli, Northern Territory
Source types: book
Date collected: 1948
Collector: Charles P Mountford and AASEAL
Place collected: Yirrkala or Oenpelli?
Coordinates: 12°15'10.000800"S,136°53'30.001200"E (-12.252778, 136.891667)
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Yirrkala, Northern Territory, per Google maps. Note: Oenpelli, Norhtern territory (12°19'39.0"S 133°03'19.0"E) is located about 650km west of Yirrkala.
Notes: This stick does not have accompanying interpretation, unlike most of the other sticks in this section of the book. Nor is it listed among the three from Yirrkala that Mountford "included to indicate additional designs employed on the message sticks of that locality". p. 471. Provenance of Yirkala or Oenpelli is deduced from the caption on the figure. Figure designed by Jean Truran
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Data Entry: Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman
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