| Coordinates WGS84 | 12°20'S, 133°03'E -12.33, 133.06 |
CPM1956P474F68_F
Title: A message stick from Oenpelli reproduced in Mountford's "Art, myth and symbolism" (1956)
Description: A message stick from Miljirina at Oenpelli to people in Darwin, pp. 474–475
Message: A request for items to be sent to Oenpelli
Creator of Object: Miljirina
Date Created: 1948
Notes on date created: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
Subtype: traditional
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Mengerr Austlang: N53 - Mengerrdji Glottolog: mang1382
Linguistic area 2: Chirila: Larrakia Austlang: N21 - Larrakia Glottolog: lara1258
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Oenpelli
Motif transcription: Figure 68F is a message stick I carried from: Miljirina at Oenpelli to a number of aborigines at Darwin, chief among them being Tjakulima. Line a is a request from Miljirina to Tjakulima to send out food because he wished to go to Goulburn Island; b is a member of the staff of Native Affairs in Darwin, and c, c (the crosses) requests to that officer to send Miljirina's wife, Tundara, back to Oenpelli; d is Wiang, e two sticks of tobacco, f an aboriginal, Nantjin, g another aboriginal, Miauri, and h, more sticks of tobacco which Miljirina wanted the men to send to him at Oenpelli. p. 475
Source types: book
Date collected: 1948
Collector: Charles P Mountford and AASEAL
Place collected: Oenpelli
Coordinates: 12°19'31.800000"S,133°03'18.000000"E (-12.3255, 133.055)
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Gunbalanya (Oenpelli)
Notes: Figure designed by Jean Truran
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Data Entry: Alexandra Roginski, Piers Kelly
Related Entries: CPM1956P468F65_AB, CPM1956P468F65_EF, CPM1956P470F66_AB, CPM1956P470F66_C, CPM1956P470F66_D, CPM1956P470F66_EF, CPM1956P470F66_GH, CPM1956P472F67_AF, CPM1956P472F67_B, CPM1956P472F67_CE, CPM1956P472F67_DG, CPM1956P474F68_AB, CPM1956P474F68_CD, CPM1956P474F68_E