AM22 Aboriginal Message Stick Ex-Museum Broome W.A.
$375.00
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
