Title: An Arrernte message stick in Museums Victoria
Description: Message stick, Desert East, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection Arrernte Northern Territory
Item type: message stick in a collection
Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 97404; X 097404
Media copyright: Museums Victoria
Notes: MusV data: "X 097404, Message stick, Desert East, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection Arrernte Northern Territory " 21.11.24 PK: The catalogue sheets for the Christensen Fund are in a separate box and with a separate set of accession numbers prefixed with CC. They are not easily matched to items in EMu. PK eyeballed some of these sheets and found many tjurungas and two message sticks (there may be more). At least one of these message sticks was described in very similar terms as a tjurunga. This item, and others in the Christensen collection will first need to be associated with the paper catalogue sheets. Circumstantially, the Christensen "message sticks" may be ceremonial boards.
Data Entry: Piers Kelly