amsd_02149

Title: Term for 'message stick' in Ngadju (two of two)

Description: Email from Troy Reynold's 9 March 2026: "[...] in my Ngadju database, I have two lexemes recorded to mean message stick, however there is not strong evidence for them: wampurru - Carl-Georg von Brandenstein's 1980 wordlist records this to mean 'message stick (invitation to initiation)' but no other information is provided. turralya - produced once in a field record by an elderly partial-speaker."

Item type: lexical item

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: turralya

Data Entry: Piers Kelly