AMus_E068058

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Date Created: 1982

Notes on date created: Exact date: 1982-12-23

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: unknown

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Maung Austlang: N64 - Mawng Glottolog: maun1240

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Goulburn Island, Arnhem, Northern Territory, Australia. Goulburn Islands are highly multilingual so Maung is very much a conventional linguistic area. Moreover, the original catalogue data doesn't specify where within the archipelago of the Goulburn Islands the object came from.

Cultural region: TopEnd_arnhem

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E068058

Coordinates: 11°36'36.298800"S,133°25'2.701200"E  (-11.610083, 133.417417)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: An approximate central point for South Goulburn Island

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=31861&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly