Coordinates WGS8430°47'S, 121°29'E
-30.78, 121.49

AMus_E009889

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet October 2022: "E009889 22 Feb 1901 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Goldfields Boulder Boulder, West Australia [ref reg] Donation Campbell, Mr W D"

Date Created: 1901

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 Boulder, Goldfields, Western Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 22-02-1901

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E009889

Collector: Donated by Mr W D Campbell

Coordinates: 30°46'54.998400"S,121°29'18.999600"E  (-30.781944, 121.488611)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Boulder, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Boulder is a suburb of Kalgoorlie in the Western Australian Goldfields, 597 kilometres east of Perth. Prior to 1989, Boulder was a town, but it was merged with Kalgoorlie to form the City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=19425&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman