SAM_A_46314

Title: A message stick from Central Australia held in the South Australian Museum

Description: Message stick made from wood, the collection of the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 1954

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Central Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Date registered: 29 May 1954

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-46314

Collector: Purchased from: Savage, Mrs M.I.

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes: 19.10.23 NR: According to SAM original register: "Savage Coll. No. a272 also bears no. 291 purch. Adelaide. about 1932". Also under the locality field mentioned as "No locality".

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman