SAM_A_15406

Title: A message stick invitation to ceremony from an unknown region, held in the South Australian Museum

Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum SAM register: note in "remarks" column for this and four other message sticks from this accession group: "associated with 2 loose labels reading (1) "invitation to 'coming of age' ceremonial" (2) "inviting members of another tribe to a corroboree" "

Message: «summons to Law ceremony»

Date Created: 1929

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem; 1929–10-03

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “SAM register: "no data"”. It therefore cannot be associated with a linguistic area.

Semantic domains: sd_ceremony_law

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition Date: 03 Oct 1929

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-15406

Collector: Donated by: Birks, L.N.; estate of

Place collected: SAM register: "No data"

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes: AR: Checked against original SAM register 18.10.23 NR: According to SAM original register - associated with 2 loose labels reading (1) "invitation to 'coming of age' ceremonial" (2) "inviting members of another tribe to a corroboree". This remark is marked for the following records: 15406, 15407, 15408, 15409, 15410. For details on the collector, see Terry, Michael. 1930. "A Journey Through the North-West of Central Australia in 1928." The Geographical Journal 75 (3):218-222.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman