AMus_E083100

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Date Created: 1987

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: QLD

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Kowanyama, Cape York, Queensland

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E083100

Coordinates: 15°28'37.599600"S,141°44'50.899200"E  (-15.477111, 141.747472)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Kowanyama, Queensland, per google maps. Wikipedia: Kowanyama is a town and coastal locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama, Queensland, Australia. The Yir-Yoront, also known as the Yir Yiront, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=85826&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman