SAM_A_67912

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

Description: Message stick 'Wondjuk' from the South Australian Museum

Creator of Object: Wondjuk

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

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

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Yirrkala

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_east

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: wantyuk ('Wondjuk'), but is this the creator?

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Date registered: 05. Dez 1983

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-67912

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: This is probably the message stick described by Mountford on p467 of Mountford, Charles P. 1956. Records of the American–Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land 1: Art, myth and symbolism. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. AR: Note in 'remarks' column of SAM register: "fig 66LF" label "Art, Myth & Symbolism" 65 ef (or cf?)

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski