Title: A message stick from Northern Territory held in the South Australian Museum
Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum
Date Created: 1957
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 “Northern Territory (coastal), Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Date registered: 11. Jul 1957
Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-50750
Collector: Loan from Nailsworth Boys Technical School; ex Sparshott collection
Media copyright: The South Australian Museum
Notes: See Doc.File for letter from the Nailsworth Boy's Technical School to the Museum Director requesting that the specimens be placed in the Museum `on call'. Doc.File also contains `Sparshott Aboriginal Collection Catalogue'. The collector, H. Sparshott, was a constable based at Woodville. 19.10.23 NR: Checked original SAM register - no new information.
Media Files:
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman