MAAC_E1915_20_29

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: Pinikura Austlang: W34 - Pinikura Glottolog: pini1244

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Murchison River; Fortescue River, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia. It is also associated with the cultural group of Warieya. (PK: This detail since removed from MAA online catalogue?) According to MAA records: "Found: ?In the vicinity of the Fortescue and Murchison Rivers;"

Cultural region: Binigura

Dimension 1: 240mm Dimension 2: 28mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology object identifier: E 1915.20.29 (MAA: E 1915.20; E 1915.20; AR 1914.290.29; 32 [written on object])

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

Coordinates: 22°36'14.601600"S,115°45'15.998400"E  (-22.604056, 115.754444)

Media copyright: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Pinikura

URL institution: https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492338/

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman