Coordinates WGS8435°S, 146°E
-35.00, 146.00

AMus_E007658

Title: A message stick from New South Wales held in the Australian Museum

Description: Message stick from the Australian Museum AMus spreadsheet from Oct 2022: "E007658 11 Jul 1898 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia New South Wales Riverina Riverina, NSW [ref reg] Purchase Stockdale, Mr Harry"

Date Created: 1898

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NSW

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Riverina, New South Wales, Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date 11/7/1898

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E007658

Coordinates: 35°S,146°E  (-35.0, 146.0)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate mid point of the Riverina region, NSW, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Riverina is an agricultural region of southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Major population and service centres in the Riverina include the cities of Wagga Wagga, Leeton, Griffith and Albury.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=8726&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman