Title: A message stick from Central Australia in Museums Victoria
Description: Message stick, Central Australia, Australia, Registered The Christensen Fund (Donation) The Christensen Fund Collection
Item type: message stick in a collection
Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 98768; X 098768
Media copyright: Museums Victoria
Notes: MusV data: X 098768, 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.
Data Entry: Piers Kelly