MusV_X_016025

Title: A message stick from Peak Hill, Western Australia in Museums Victoria

Date Created: 1910

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 Peak Hill, Western Australia

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 16025

Collector: Purchased by H. Braham

Coordinates: 25°38'15.298800"S,118°43'23.901600"E  (-25.637583, 118.723306)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Peak Hill, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.

Notes: MusV data: X 016025, Message stick, Peak Hill, Northwest (Western Australia), Western Australia, Australia, Registered [X 16025] Braham, H (Purchase) Peak Hill Western Australia Original register: "Date received: 1910, March 30. Reg. No. 16025. "Message stick, thick cylindrical"

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman