| Coordinates WGS84 | 30°28'S, 131°50'E -30.46, 131.84 |
Title: A message stick held in the Kerry Stokes Collection
Description: Small Cylindrical Message Stick carved, shaped, notched and incised wood
Date Created: Unknown
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: SA
Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: The message stick is associated with South Australia, Ooldea
Dimension 1: 130mm Dimension 2: 20mm Dimension 3: 12mm
Materials: wood
Techniques: carved, notched and incised, shaped
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: The Kerry Stokes Collection object identifier: 2021.106
Collector: Unknown
Coordinates: 30°27'32.900400"S,131°50'8.210400"E (-30.459139, 131.835614)
Media copyright: The Kerry Stokes Collection
Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Ooldea mission station, per Google maps. Ooldea, known as Yuldea and various other names by Western Desert peoples, is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway. Ooldea is 143 km from the bitumen Eyre Highway.
Notes: 21.8.24 NR: one out of two message sticks with the same accession number (2021.106)
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman
Related Entries: KSC2021_106_2