SAM_A_47670

Title: A message stick from Yirrkala requesting red calico and other items from Bessie Mountford

Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum From SAM register: "Message from Mungarui to Mrs CP Mountford requesting red calico etc."

Message: From SAM register: "Message from Mungarui to Mrs CP Mountford requesting red calico etc."

Creator of Object: Mungarui

Date Created: 1952

Notes on date created: Year of American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land – 1948 AR: Charles Mountford note of 10 July 1952. This appears on the stick itself, and aligns with the timing of his return visit to Yirrkala.

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: NT

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Dhangu Austlang: N192 - Dhangu Glottolog: dhan1270

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia. Linguistic area is inferred from Yirrkala

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_east

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: AR: Registered 1955.

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-47670

Collector: Mountford, Charles P.

Coordinates: 12°15'10.000800"S,136°53'30.001200"E  (-12.252778, 136.891667)

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Yirrkala

Notes: See Mountford C.P. 1956 'Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land Vol. 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism', Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. The SAM has provided images but permission not yet secured to append them to the AMSD. SAM-A47670_Front.tif SAM-A47670_Notation.tif SAM-A47670_Reverse.tif AR: Checked against SAM register and updated. Check Bessie Mountford’s diary, at the SLSA in the Mountford-Sheard collection.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski