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