SAM_A_13047

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

Description: A carved non-painted message stick from the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 1925

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional_context

State/Territory: NT

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. "Notes 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: Sep 1925

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-13047

Collector: Purchased from: Lousada, E.C.H.

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: "Date: Nov 28, 1925. Name or Description: Message stick, unpainted but carved. Locality: Yetiba, Groote Eylandt, N.J.. How Acquired: Purchased. From whom Acquired. E.C.H. Lousada (Aug 1925). See Rec SA Mus iii, 1935. p72"

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly