MusV_X_098760

Title: A message stick from Central Australia in Museums Victoria

Description: MV object description, PDF: "Short cylindrical stick truncated at both ends. Surfaces have been decorated with a deeply incised pattern consisting of a curvilinear pattern."

Date Created: 1982

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (secondary notes re date of acquisition as 7/6/82)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Cultural region: Central Australia

Dimension 1: 120mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Techniques: carved, incised

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 98760

Collector: Donated by Mr Robert Edwards, Christensen Fund Collection. MV register: "Acquired from James R Lawson Pty Ltd, Inv No. 03088, 7/6/82 (Lot 153), Zorich Ref 11407/68

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes: MusV PDF: 1995-07-03 (registered in coll) MusV data: "X 098760, Message stick, Central Australia, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection " 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.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski