Title: A message stick from Esperance Bay in Museums Victoria
Date Created: 1890
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 829
Media copyright: Museums Victoria
Notes: MusV data: X 000829, Message stick, Esperance Bay, Southwest (Western Australia), Western Australia, Australia, Registered Forrest, Honourable John (Purchase, 10 Nov 1890) John Forrest Collection Mirning Esperance Bay Western Australia Original register: "829. Message Stick. Cigar like shape incised with leafage pattern. Wonunda mirnung tribe, Bay of Esperance, Recherché Archipelago, West Australia. Purchased. Letter 90/803. Collected by the Hon. J. Forrest"
Data Entry: Piers Kelly