Coordinates WGS84 | 29°26'S, 142°01'E -29.43, 142.01 |
Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum
Date Created: 1938
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: NSW
Source types: museum collection
Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E085689
Collector: Mr Sidney Anstee
Coordinates: 29°25'59.498400"S,142°37.598400"E (-29.433194, 142.010444)
Media copyright: The Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Tibooburra, New South Wales, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Tibooburra is a town in the far northwest of New South Wales, Australia. White Cliffs is a small town in outback New South Wales in Australia, in Central Darling Shire. Milparinka is a small settlement in north-west New South Wales, Australia, about 250 kilometres (155 mi) north of Broken Hill on the Silver City Highway.
URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=4618&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FAdvQuery.php&highlight_term=
Notes: PK: Aunty Gwen found this in the museum on 17.10.2022, noticed it was from Tibooburra, Wangkumara country (her country). This featured in the First Inventors documentary directed by Larissa Behrendt From eMu of Australian Museum: "Col from an afghan cameleer Fazulla and a camel hunter, Mr Fred Faggoter in the area of White Cliffs, Milparinka & Tibooburra during 1938 by Mr Sidney Anstee in 1938" "Anstee was a teacher at Tibooburra, between 1938 and 1963"
Media Files:
Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman