SAM_A_72039

Title: A message stick held in the South Australian Museum

Description: Message stick, wooden, rod-like, tapering to a blunt point each end, decorated with short transverse pokerwork and 2 paired groups of notches. The stick is a part of the collection of the South Australian Museum

Date Created: 2001

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 “Australia”. It therefore cannot be a associated with a linguistic area.

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Date registered: 25. Mai 2001

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-72039

Collector: Hutchinson, G. C.

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes: With accompanying tag "Aboriginal message stick, G.C.H.". 23.10.23 NR: Digitisation of SAM register not available.

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup