SAM_A_60348

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

Description: Wooden incised message stick 'Miljirina' from the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 1948

Notes on date created: Year of American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_east

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: miltyirina ('Miljirina')

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Date registered: 25. Feb 1970

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-60348

Collector: Purchased from: 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, per google maps

Notes: AR: SAM register: "'Arnhemland, Art, Myth and Symbolism', p 472 B, Coll CPM"

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman