GML_Au3782

Title: A message stick from Northern Territory held in the Grassi Museum Leipzig

Description: Holzstab, gerötelt, mit eingeritzten Symbolen bedeckt [A wooden stick, reddened, covered with carved symbols]. The message stick is a part of the collection of the Grassi Museum Leipzig, catalogue Au 3782

Date Created: 1963

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Angas Downs Station, Northern Territory

Dimension 1: 310mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition date 1963

Institution/Holder file: The Grassi Museum Leipzig object identifier: Au 3782

Collector: Donated by: Fred Rose

Coordinates: 25°02'4.099200"S,132°16'26.400000"E  (-25.034472, 132.274)

Media copyright: The Grassi Museum Leipzig

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Angus Downs Homestead, Northern Territory. Wikipedia: Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an Aboriginal Australian-owned 320,500-hectare pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, 300 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.

Notes: Style is typical of the punu being produced in the 1960s at Angas Downs (see Palmer, Shannyn. 2016. (un)making Angas Downs. Canberra: Australian National University PhD dissertation.)

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman