Title: A message stick held in the South Australian Museum
Description: Message stick, wood, carved with tree trunk (Boab) and branches, incised into one upper surface. Brown/red pigment all over object. The stick is in the collection of the South Australian Museum
Date Created: 1905
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Subtype: traditional_context
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. (possibly Yirrkala - pers comm PM)
Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem_east_unlocalisable
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition Date: 06. Jul 1905 Date registered: 18. Aug 1906
Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-76733
Collector: Donated by: Weedon, Kerry
Media copyright: The South Australian Museum
Notes: Purchased from second hand shop in Adelaide. AR: Digitisation of SAM register not available
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Alexandra Roginski