AMus_E033085

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Description: AM largecard: "Rectangular wooden piece; section: b-convex, incised/burnt in line design.

Date Created: 1930

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 Kimberley, Western Australia

Cultural region: WA_kimberley_forrest

Dimension 1: 125mm Dimension 2: 25mm

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration date 17/02/1930

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E033085

Collector: L. Wood

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=674&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=

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: [None]

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Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman