AMus_E036248

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Date Created: 1933

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 Meekathara, Mid West, Western Australia

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 27-10-1933

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E036248

Coordinates: 26°35'36.999600"S,118°29'43.000800"E  (-26.593611, 118.495278)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Meekatharra, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Meekatharra is a Yamatji word meaning "place of little water".

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=19824&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman