Title: A message stick from Northampton 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 856
Media copyright: Museums Victoria
Notes: MusV data: X 000856, Message stick, Northampton, Northwest (Western Australia), Western Australia, Australia, Registered Forrest, Honourable John (Purchase, 10 Nov 1890) John Forrest Collection Nhanta Northampton Western Australia Original register: "856. Passport Stick, Baumbaroo. Of Mulga wood. Same as 855. No native will be molseted while he has one of these in his possession. Eaw [or Gaur?] trebie, Northampton, West Australia. Collected by the Hon. J. Forrest. Purchased. See letter 90/805."
Data Entry: Piers Kelly