SAM_A_77620

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

Description: Message stick from the South Australian Museum. Wood, poker work. Light colour wood with six lines and poker work. Eight lines of poker work rotate around the object.

Date Created: 2009

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

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-77620

Collector: Donated by: Prider, Heather "Passed to donor from Gerald Griffiths (deceased), 1960s"

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes: 23.10.23 NR: Digitisation of SAM register not available.

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman