| Coordinates WGS84 | 25°38'S, 118°43'E -25.64, 118.72 |
Title: A message stick from Western Australia held in the Australian Museum
Description: AMus spreadsheet Oct 2022: " E029644 11 Nov 1925 message stick COMMUNICATION & MEDIA Australia Western Australia Mid West Peak Hill Peak Hill, N. Murchison 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 Peak Hill, N. Murchison, Mid West, Western Australia
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Registration Date: 11-11-1925
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E029644
Collector: Purchased by Mr John Francis Connelly
Coordinates: 25°38'15.298800"S,118°43'23.901600"E (-25.637583, 118.723306)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Peak Hill, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman