PMH305470_D3427

Title: A Murngin (Yolngu) message stick held in the Peabody Museum Harvard

Description: PMH Catalogue Description: Message stick. Carving, flat wood stick, rectangular, perforated, incised painted designs Original catalogue: "Used to inform other clans that a ceremony is to be held" (PK: not clear if this is generic description or specific to this object)

Date Created: 1929

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional_context

State/Territory: NT

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Yolngu Austlang: N117.1 - Murngin Glottolog: yuul1239

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Northeast Arnhem Land Culture/Period: Murngin Original register: "Murngin tribe. N.E. Arnhem Land Australia"

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_east

Dimension 1: 289mm Dimension 2: 58mm Dimension 3: 11mm

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Peabody Museum Harvard object identifier: 30-54-70/D3427

Collector: Sold By: Unknown (1930) Collector: W. Lloyd Warner (1929)

Coordinates: 12°46'13.598400"S,135°50'10.600800"E  (-12.770444, 135.836278)

Media copyright: Peabody Museum Harvard. For rights and reproductions requests, see https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/about/rightspermissions

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Yolngu

URL institution: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77595?ctx=3e68694f7a6bb4fa723c571f54d7a481b0b532da&idx=1

Notes: 25.3.24 NR: This item is also listed in PMH as a Photograph (B&W, item on the right) taken 1996 (2004.24.33790; 27-2-70/D3427); Image Credit Line: President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman