AMus_E010635

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: "E010635 14 May 1902 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Mid West Murchison District, W.A. [ref reg] Purchase Connelly, Mr John Francis"

Date Created: 1902

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 Mid West, Western Australia

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: pamparu ("Bambaroo")

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 14-05-1902

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E010635

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=18953&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Notes: REGISTER

Date: May 15, 1902

Name or Description: Message stick

Locality: Murchison WA

How Acquired: Purch.

Name of Donor or Seller: J. F. Connelly

Estimated or Market Value:

Destination:

Remarks: "Bambaroo" or "yinmal"

OTHER NOTES

18.03.2026 PK: possible that yinma is for a tjurunga. This is because E010630 and E010631 from the same collector are listed as "Ceremony Churingai ?(Bullroarers)" with the term yinmarrie" written in the 'Remarks' field

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly