AMus_E033083

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AMus largecard: "Rectangular wooden piece; section: bi-convex; incised/burnt in line design"

Date Created: 1930

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem; accession date 17 Feb 1930

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: Forrest River, East Kimberley

Cultural region: WA_kimberley_forrest

Dimension 1: 137mm Dimension 2: 23mm

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E033083

Coordinates: 16°S,126°E  (-16.0, 126.0)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Kimberley District, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=672&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Notes: REGISTER

Date: Feb 17, 1930

Name or Description: Message stick

Locality: Forrest R, E. Kimberley, W.A.

How Acquired: Purch. L. Wood

Reference to papers: (see ante) [=12/1930]

Destination or Remarks: [pencil->]VII 582

PK: Note that VII582 refers to a black and white photo with the filename ams351_v11582_c01.jpg. It depicts four message sticks including this one. OTHER NOTES

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman, Piers Kelly