MusV_X_012359

Title: A message stick from Shark Bay in the Museums Victoria

Date Created: 1903

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Shark Bay

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 12359

Coordinates: 25°53'10.100400"S,113°54'26.701200"E  (-25.886139, 113.907417)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Shark Bay, per Google maps

Notes: X 012359, Message stick, Shark Bay, Northwest (Western Australia), Western Australia, Australia, Registered Shark Bay Western Australia Original register: "Date Received. 1903, Dec. 23. Museum no. 12359. Message stick. Of yellow wood, covered with faintly incised transverse and oblique bands. Length 10", Sharks Bay, West Australia"

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman