BM_Oc1980_Q_739

Title: A message stick held in the British Museum

Description: British Museum entry: Wooden message stick: piece of wood, pointed at one end and covered with zigzag grooves. Curator's comments: Handwritten label attached to object reads '5. Message Stick. Kalgoorlie WA'

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 330mm Dimension 2: 23mm Dimension 3: 21mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Acquisition details unknown.

Institution/Holder file: The British Museum object identifier: Oc1980,Q.739

Collector: Curator's comments: "Handwritten label attached to object reads '5. Message Stick. Kalgoorlie WA'"

Coordinates: 30°44'56.000400"S,121°27'56.998800"E  (-30.748889, 121.465833)

Media copyright: The British Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located 595 km (370 mi) east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includes the historic townsite of Boulder and the local government area is the City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder.

URL institution: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=490010&partId=1&searchText=message+stick&page=1

IRN: EOC25994

Notes: 4.12.23 NR: checked against BM online catalogue.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman