MAGNT_ABETH_2727

Title: A message stick from Ji-marda held in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Message: From MAGNT catalogue: "Communication between people at Djimada to get stock from new shop to Kopunya side in 1977. An authorisation for transfering money out of a bank account."

Date Created: 1977

Notes on date created: exact year

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: NT

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Burarra Austlang: N82 - Burarra Glottolog: bura1267

Linguistic area 2: Chirila: Burarra Austlang: N82 - Burarra Glottolog: bura1267

Notes on linguistic areas: In MAGNT catalogue, 'Level 3: Place of Creation' is given as Maningrida and 'Level 4: Place of Creation' is given as Gupanga, but message is "Communication between people at Djimada to get stock from new shop to Kopunya side in 1977. An authorisation for transfering money out of a bank account." Kopunya is perhaps Kopanga which is mapped in Meehan (1982, p27) and location of Ji-marda is described in Bagshaw, Geoff. 1982. "Whose store at Jimarda?" In Service delivery to outstations, edited by Peter Loveday, 50-56. Canberra: Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit. Bagshaw writes: "Situated some 2km east of the Blyth River/Arafura Sea estuary, it lies at a point virtually midway between the government settlement of Maningrida (48 km west) and what was until recently the Methodist mission at Milingimbi in the Crocodile Islands (46 km east). Although relatively close 'as the crow flies' to each of these townships, large bodies of intervening water (rivers, straits, swamps) make direct access impossible. The only means of entering Jimarda are by way of a 120 km dry season track from Maningrida, an arduous sea voyage from either Maningrida or Milingimbi, or by light aircraft."

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_west

Institution/Holder file: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Collector: Dan Gillespie

Coordinates: 12°03'22.100400"S,134°36'54.100800"E  (-12.056139, 134.615028)

Media copyright: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Ji-marda outstation

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly