AMus_E025775

Title: A message stick from Western Australia held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: " E025775 16 Sep 1919 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Goldfields Lawlers Lawlers, E. Murchison,WA [ref reg] Purchase Lloyd, T V"

Date Created: 1919

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 Lawlers, Goldfields, Western Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 16-09-1919

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E025775

Coordinates: 28°04'53.698800"S,120°31'14.901600"E  (-28.081583, 120.520806)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Lawlers, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Lawlers is a ghost town on the Old Agnew Road, 982 kilometres northeast of Perth, Western Australia, in the Shire of Leonora in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=19602&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman