AM22 Aboriginal Message Stick Ex-Museum Broome W.A.

Item No.                 . AM22 Description          . Message Stick or Churinga from Broome W.A. Highly unusual pattern and Markings. Bought  along with several others from a Maryborough Museum that closed in the 1980’s. All were very old and a number pre-contact. Churinga were the Representation or manifestation of a mythical being and a ritual object, usually made of wood and occasionally stone. These formalized symbols are a sort of mnemonic device, which elders use to tell the story of the ancestors’ tracks through the landscape and also represent the tracks of totemic beings. Size                         . 38cm (15“) Price                       . USD$375