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." 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. However, the image of this object does not look like a tjurunga.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski