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Details
- Other Title
- Message stick (Invitation to Morning Star ceremony)
- Place where the work was made
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural pigments on wood, vegetable fibre string, feathers, wax
- Dimensions
- 81.9 h x 2.5 diam. approx.
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA46.1962
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Central Arnhem Land
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2016–29 Jan 2017
Under the Stars, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Mar 2020–07 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 3.
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