MusV_X_037043

Title: A message stick from Anthony Lagoon in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description: "Cylindrical message stick with tapered ends. Surface has been decorated with incised patterns."

Date Created: 1929

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (registered 4 July 1929)

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Anthony Lagoon, Gulf of Carpentaria, NT

Dimension 1: 125mm Dimension 2: 25mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: 1929-07-04 (registered)

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 37043

Collector: Alfred Stephen Kenyon

Coordinates: 17°58'40.800000"S,135°31'58.800000"E  (-17.978, 135.533)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Anthony Lagoon, Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Anthony Lagoon is a cattle station on the Barkly Tableland in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is situated approximately 215 kilometres east of Elliott and 227 kilometres south of Borroloola. Britannica: Gulf of Carpentaria, shallow rectangular inlet of the Arafura Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean), indenting the northern coast of Australia.

Notes: MusV data: X 037043, Message stick, Anthony Lagoon, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia, pre 1929, Registered [X 37043] Kenyon, Alfred Stephen (Purchase) Alfred S. Kenyon Collection Anthony Lagoon Northern Territory Original register: "Message stick, ?, ENGRAVED DESIGN"

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman