| Coordinates WGS84 | 28°48'S, 122°11'E -28.79, 122.19 |
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: " E023533 15 Feb 1916 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Goldfields Mt. Margaret District, WA [ref reg] Donation Doherty, Mr Daniel"
Date Created: 1916
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 Goldfields, Mt. Margaret District, Western Australia
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Registration Date: 15-02-1916
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E023533
Collector: Donated by Mr Daniel Doherty
Coordinates: 28°47'41.200800"S,122°11'6.900000"E (-28.794778, 122.18525)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute cooridinates for Mount Margaret, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Mount Margaret was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1901 to 1930, located in the northeastern Goldfields region. Mount Margaret was an abandoned town located 900 kilometres (559 mi) northeast of Perth and 31 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman