MAAC_E1915_20_28

Title: A message stick held in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Description: Message stick

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Purduna Austlang: W24 - Burduna Glottolog: burd1238

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is given simply as “Western Australia, Australia”. It is also associated with the cultural group of Buduna.

Cultural region: Buduna

Dimension 1: 182mm Dimension 2: 23mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology object identifier: E 1915.20.28 (MAA: E 1915.20; E 1915.20; AR 1914.290.28)

Collector: Brown, Alfred Reginald (later Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (Prof.)) [collector and donor]

Coordinates: 23°26'1.500000"S,115°01'21.201600"E  (-23.43375, 115.022556)

Media copyright: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Purduna

URL institution: https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492337/

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman