GNM_NEWHM_B018

Title: A message stick held in the Great North Museum, Newcastle

Description: GNM online catalogue: "Spindle-shaped message stick of light-coloured hard-wood, with scratched decoration, in eight unequal bands. Used to call tribes to Corroboree at Kalgoorie, 1905."

Message: GNM online catalogue: "call tribes to Corroboree at Kalgoorie"

Date Created: 1905

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: This message stick is associated with Kalgoorie (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia?)

Dimension 1: 450mm Dimension 2: 40mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The Great North Museum object identifier: NEWHM : B018

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

Media copyright: The Great North 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. Kalgoorie = Kalgoorlie?

URL institution: https://collectionssearchtwmuseums.org.uk/#details=ecatalogue.62970

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman