AMus_E029643

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: " E029643 11 Nov 1925 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Goldfields Mt. Margaret - Laverton, WA [ref reg] Purchase Connelly, Mr John Francis"

Date Created: 1925

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 - Laverton, Western Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 11-11-1925

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E029643

Collector: Purchased by Mr John Francis Connelly

Coordinates: 28°47'42.100800"S,122°11'9.499200"E  (-28.795028, 122.185972)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mount Margaret Community, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Mount Margaret Community (formerly Mount Margaret Mission) is a medium-sized Aboriginal community 20 km south west of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Laverton.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=19726&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman