| Coordinates WGS84 | 17°30'S, 125°45'E -17.50, 125.75 |
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Description: largecard: "Wooden fusiform message stick; section: bi-convex; incised diagonal design"
Date Created: 1948
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 King Leopold Ranges, Western Australia
Dimension 1: 215mm Dimension 2: 27mm
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Registration Date: 10.12.1948
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E052564
Collector: Mrs C. M. Kellard (largecard)
Coordinates: 17°30'S,125°45'E (-17.5, 125.75)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Random coordinates along the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges (formerly King Leopold Ranges), Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges (formerly between 1879 and 2020, the King Leopold Ranges) are a range of hills in the western Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Notes: REGISTER
Date: Dec. 10, 1948
Name or Description: Message-stick
Locality: Western Australia
How Acquired: Pres. Mrs Kellard [sic]
References to Papers: 243/48; 48/131; L1148/131
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ACCESSION SCHEDULE
Reference File no. 1/48/131 Accession No. 243 Date received: 15 Dec 1948 Received from: Mrs C. M. Kellard, 62 Fairhaven, Durban, South Africa. Specimens of: Anthropology How acquired: Presented Acknowleded (date) L. T. 16th December, 1948 Purchase Voucher No. [N/A] Forwarded to Office (date): 15/121 1948 Information.: A message-stick used by the aborigines both as a passport through tribal territories other than their own & also as a means of reminding the traveller of the message he is to deliver verbally. The works sometimes denote numbers but they cannot be read as a coherent script. This sample is welcomed because its locality is known. The old boomerangs, if localized, would also be acceptable. Register No.: E52564 Number of specimens: 1 Common name: Message-stick, Prince Leopold Ranges, Western Australia OTHER NOTES
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman, Piers Kelly