Title: A message stick from Northern Territory held in the South Australian Museum
Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum. Incised flat piece of wood,with cross hatching. Splitting lengthways.
Date Created: 2009
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: NT
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Acquisition Date: 09. Apr 2009 Date registered: 12. Aug 2009
Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-77523
Collector: Donated by: Waters, Kylie & Heidenreich
Place collected: 23°56'30.0"S
Creator copyright: 132°46'47.1"E
Media copyright: The South Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, per Google maps
Notes: Donor is granddaughter of Rev Heidenreich. Heidenreich collection used by donor to produce exhibition held at SAM in 2009. These three message objects (A77523-25) were also collected by Heidenreich. 23.10.23 NR: Digitisation of SAM register not available.
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman