MAAC_E1915_20_32

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

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 Thalanyi [Talainji]. According to MAA records: "Found: ?In the vicinity of the Fortescue and Murchison Rivers;"

Cultural region: Thalanyi [Talainji]

Dimension 1: 152mm Dimension 2: 26mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology object identifier: E 1915.20.32 (MAA: E 1915.20; E 1915.20; AR 1914.290.32; 30 [added to label in pencil])

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

Coordinates: 22°42'34.801200"S,114°40'15.200400"E  (-22.709667, 114.670889)

Media copyright: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Thalanyji

URL institution: https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492341/

Media Files:

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman, Piers Kelly