AMus_E089068

Title: A message stick held in the Australian Museum

Date Created: 1998

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 Mitchell River, Cape York

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Registration Date: 27-01-1998

Institution/Holder file: The Australian Museum object identifier: E089068

Coordinates: 15°13'31.598400"S,141°39'14.400000"E  (-15.225444, 141.654)

Media copyright: The Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for the Mitchell River's mouth towards the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Mitchell River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the Atherton Tableland about 50 kilometres northwest of Cairns and flows about 750 kilometres northwest across Cape York Peninsula from Mareeba to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

URL institution: http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Display.php?irn=9776&QueryPage=%2Famweb%2Fpages%2Fam%2FQuery.php&highlight_term=message+stick

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman