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Item X 12619 Message stick. Roper River, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1900

Summary

This message stick is cylindrical and has a diamond like pattern cut into the entire surface. It is amongst a small number of objects donated to the museum by Mrs A Gunn, presumably the novelist Mrs Aeneas Gunn or Jeannie Gunn who went with her husband to run Elsey Station in 1902 and 1903.

Physical Description

A cylindrical stick made of wood incised with lines forming a diamond pattern.

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Object/Medium

Message stick
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Roper River, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

c.1900
Collector

Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Date Collected

c.1902
Object Measurements

115 mm (Length), 15 mm (Width), 15 mm (Height)
Keywords

Communication
Collection Names

Mrs Aeneas Gunn Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

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Item X 12619 Message stick. Roper River, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1900

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