MusV_X_12621

Title: A message stick listed in the register of Museums Victoria but not in the digital database

Description: Original register: " Message stick. Length 2 1/4". Message from a boy at Daly Waters brought by white mail man and delivered to lubra to tell her to cut off hair and send it to him. Northern Territory. Presented by Aeneas Gunn"

Message: Message from a boy at Daly Waters brought by white mail man and delivered to lubra to tell her to cut off hair and send it to him.

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yangman Austlang: N68 - Yangman Glottolog: yang1288

Semantic domains: purpose_request, sd_activity_cuthair, sd_activity_sendhair, sd_messenger_white, sd_place_dalywaters, sd_recipient_woman, sd_sender_boy

object identifier: 012621

Coordinates: 15°05'0.200400"S,133°07'22.101600"E  (-15.083389, 133.122806)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for former site of Elsey Station

Data Entry: Piers Kelly