MusV_X_105305

Title: A Kurnai message stick in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description, PDF: "Wooden message stick, featuring poker-work decoration at both ends, and feathers and seeds attached with leather strip at one end." X 105305, Message stick, Gunai Kurnai, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, Registered [DDX 6523] Museum Victoria: Interpretive Collection (Transfer) Gunai Kurnai Victoria

Creator of Object: Tentatively attributed to Albert Mullett by Senior Curator, Lindy Allen; to be confirmed (R McWilliams, 1 Aug 2017)

Date Created: 2014

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (registered 28 Jan 2014)

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: replicative_artistic

State/Territory: VIC

Dimension 1: 300mm Dimension 2: 35mm Dimension 3: 35mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: 2014-01-28 (registered)

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 105305

Collector: Primary comments: Acquired from Museums Victoria interpretive collection. INT 50667. No further information.

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes: MusV data: "X 105305, Message stick, Gunai Kurnai, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, Registered [DDX 6523] Museum Victoria: Interpretive Collection (Transfer) Gunai Kurnai Victoria " 21.11.24 PK: Could not be checked against microfiche, original register or catalogue sheets since numbers this high don't turn up in the paper sources.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski