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Ive got a couple of sticks that I have no information about in terms of maker and place of origin. One of the I posted on SS forum and it was felt that it is from the Port Keats area. The stick was in the back room of a shop when I purchased it 18-19 years ago. The folks who had it said they were in Australia 20 years prior and brought it back with them~



This next stick came to me just last year after a friend decided it should be played. He had it in his home after his son brought it as a gift while visiting the Top End some 18 years ago~



And lastly here is my newest addition ~made by Djalu~



EDIT: One more question;

some years back I gave a workshop to share some basic playing technique. One man was very interested after the workshop. He found a stick with which to play on but a year later was in an auto accident and died. His wife held on to the stick for a couple years then gave it to me. Here is a picture of the signature~

I'd still say thats from the Port Keats area due to the decoration etc, but Guan will be able to confirm. The other two (excluding the Djalu) look to be generic instruments made for the tourist trade and not attributable to any specific maker of renown, however that does not mean they're not good instruments!

Kyle

First stick looks nice, proper tribal instrument with age, I need better pics to give an attribution though, its either from the NW Northern Territory region or more from Tennant Creek way, depends on the nature of the pigments and the execution of the dotting.

Second stick, pic again too small to show much, it looks like a European beeswax mouthpiece however though that could have been put on by the shop or the previous owner. So it could be a generic stick, but it does also have a bit of an Arnhem Land look to it, close-up of painted motifs will tell all.

Nice looking Djalu, should do well with a repair job and it looks like a keeper too.

The 4th stick is a northern Queensland contemporary Aboriginal didgeridoo.

Guan

Here's a pic of an older stick from the Tennant Creek region with dotting and snake motif. There are others too in my collection, some are a little difficult to attribute to a location though, there's a sad lack of information when it comes to didgeridoo regional variants...

But imagine a book with 1000 photographs of authenticated didgeridoos from state and national museums worldwide plus private collections of varying vintages representing all of the instrument's key locations? Who wants a book like that? I know I do...

Guan