SAM_A_12592

Title: A message stick from Northern Territory held in the South Australian Museum

Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 1922

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional_context

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Anindilyakwa Austlang: N151 - Anindilyakwa Glottolog: anin1240

Notes on linguistic areas: The linguistic area is given by Tindale as 'Ingura'. This is equivalent to Anindilyakwa. The origin of the message stick is Groote Eylandt, Yetiba, Northern Territory, Australia. A map showing the location of Yetiba (now Yadikba) is provided in Tindale, Norman B. 1925. "Nofes on the Birds of Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria." South Australian Ornithologist 10:10-21.

Cultural region: TopEnd_groote

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition Date: Jun 1922

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-12592

Collector: Collected by: Tindale, N.B.; South Australian Museum employee

Coordinates: 14°04'34.701600"S,136°26'21.098400"E  (-14.076306, 136.439194)

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Exact location of Yetiba (Yadikba) permanent camp

Notes: Original register: "Registration number: A 12592. Name or Description: Message Stick. Locality Groote Eylandt; Yeteba. How acquired: Coll. From whome Acquired: N.B. Tindale vi/1922. Remarks: Ingura Tribe."

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly