| Coordinates WGS84 | 16°S, 126°E -16.00, 126.00 |
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: Summary: This message stick was purchased by the Australian Museum from Harry Stockdale who may have collected it during his exploration of northwest Australia between 1884 and 1885, but there is no mention of it in his exploration diaries and the style is more typical of the Murchison region of WA. Stockdale did collect another message stick from the Murchison also purchased by the museum (E028853) AMus largecard: "Cylindrical wooden piece; section: circular; incised zig-zag dot design" AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E009348 07 May 1900 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Kimberley [reference Register] Purchase Stockdale, Mr Harry"
Date Created: 1900
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: WA
Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Kimberley, Western Australia
Cultural region: WA_kimberley
Dimension 1: 140mm Dimension 2: 10mm
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E009348
Collector: Purchased by Mr Harry Stockdale
Coordinates: 16°S,126°E (-16.0, 126.0)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Kimberley District, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.
Notes: REGISTER
Date: May 7, 1900
Name or Description: Round message stick?
Locality: Kimberley, N.W.A.
How Acquired: Pres.
Name of donor or seller: H. Stockdale
Destination or Remarks: [None]
OTHER NOTES
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman