| Coordinates WGS84 | 30°28'S, 131°50'E -30.46, 131.84 |
CPM1938P123F3
Title: Sketch of a message stick from C. Mountford's "Aboriginal message sticks" (1938)
Description: Sketch of a message stick on p. 123, figure 3, of “Aboriginal message sticks” by C. Mountford
Date Created: 1938
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: image of a message stick (artefact missing)
Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Mirniny Austlang: A9 - Mirning
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Ooldea Mission Station. Language is uncertain and inferred from geography. Could also be Wirangu or any number of languages that met at the Ooldea Mission station The "Ooldea tribe" is nonetheless analysed as Mirniny. (Note, however, that Mirniny turns up twice in Chirila. One is over on the western edge of the Nullabor near Caiguna. The other is further east near Eucla. The Eucla Mirniny is the one referred to here.) We have assumed that "Ooldea tribe" is (eastern) Mirniny on the basis of the fact that the Ooldea soak and Ooldea Hill are in this area at 29°39'05.5"S 131°50'59.6"E. Tindale also refers to "Miming man of Ooldea who went to Esperance by train and found friendly southern people there" Harald wrote: "For doculects that that referred to as Mirning or the like the corresponding Glottolog variety can be either Kalarko [kala1379] kba Ngadjunmaya [ngad1258] nju It's debatable whether there should be a separate variety with that name. Mirning is also the name of a subgroup" Claire wrote: "So it looks like Glottolog includes 2 western Mirning languages but not the eastern-most one around Eucla, since the term Ngatjumaya is specifically for Western Mirning? I see in my tree I used "Mirniny", "Ngatjumaya" and "Eucla", and a number of Noongar varieties; I didn't have data for inland varieties."
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Collector: Miss Lock
Coordinates: 30°27'32.900400"S,131°50'8.210400"E (-30.459139, 131.835614)
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Ooldea mission station
Media Files:
Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly