MusV_X_097503

Title: A message stick from South Australia in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description, PDF: "long, slender cylindrical stick with both ends pointed. Burnt designs at both ends of the stick. MATERIAL: wood. TECHNIQUE: carved; burnt." X 097503, Message stick, Northern, South Australia, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection South Australia

Date Created: 1982

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (acquired from Peter Nation Antiques, Adelaide, 22 June 1982)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Dimension 1: 460mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: burnt, carved

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 97503

Collector: Mr Robert Edwards, The Christensen Fund Collection Originally from the Smith Collection. Acquired from Peter Nation Antiques, Adelaide, 22/6/82.

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes: MusV data: "X 097503, Message stick, Northern, South Australia, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection South Australia " MusV PDF: "Primary Comments From original worksheet: "Long, round and thin with regular designs burnt around each end of the object." Ref 92/5 Originally from the Smith Collection. Acquired from Peter Nation Antiques, Adelaide, 22/6/82."

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski