DESCRIPTION
This is an authentic Australian made Aboriginal message stick, handmade and hand painted by prominent Aboriginal artist and artifact maker Josh Skeen.

DIMENSIONS, MATERIAL AND ARTIST AND MAKERS DETAILS
MESSAGE STICK SIZE: 37 cm (15 inches) long  and 7 cm wide (3 inches) at one end and 5 cm (2 inches) wide at the other end, 1 cm ((0.8 inches) thick
MATERIAL: Australian native timbers
ARTIST AND MAKER: Josh Skeen 
TRIBE: Birri Gubba – in the Bowen area of North Queensland
MATERNIAL: Kuku-Thaipan- North Queensland
MADE IN: Greenbank, Queensland, Australia

WHAT IS A MESSAGE STICK
Message sticks are a form of communication between different Aboriginal tribes. Aboriginal tradition says they were passed between different clans and language groups to establish information and transmit messages.

They were often used to invite neighbouring groups to corroborees, set-fights and ball games.

Josh Skeen says they were also sometimes used like a passport granted by a tribal elder to a messenger to show other tribes as the messenger asked permission to travel across their land. Aboriginal elders from different tribes respected each other and message sticks were used like an official travelling document and the carrier was treated with respect and allowed safe passage

This message stick has been painted in traditional Aboriginal track designs by Josh Skeen

MAKER AND ARTIST
These traditional message sticks are handmade and painted by prominent Aboriginal artist and artifact maker Josh Skeen. Josh is a fourth-generation Australian Aboriginal. The art work represents traditional Australian native animals such as the platypus, frilled-lizard, crocodile, kangaroo and emu.  

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
We provide a certificate of authenticity for each message stick, stating the heritage of the maker, Josh Skeen. We guarantee that all products are hand made in Australia and genuine handcrafted by Australian Aboriginal peoples.