MusV_X_038683

Title: A message stick from Rum Jungle in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description: "A rectangular elliptical shaped section of wood incised with geometric patterns on both sides and hole at one end."

Date Created: 1931

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem. registered 10 March 1931

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is the Rum Jungle locality, Northern Territory

Dimension 1: 240mm Dimension 2: 30mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 38683

Collector: D Raymond, purchased from

Place collected: Rum Jungle

Coordinates: 13°01'41.700000"S,130°59'11.500800"E  (-13.02825, 130.986528)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for the Rum Jungle locality, Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Rum Jungle or Unrungkoolpum is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 105 kilometres south of Darwin on the East Branch of the Finniss River and it shares a boundary with Litchfield National Park. It is 10 kilometres west of Batchelor.

Notes: MusV data: X 038683, Message stick, Rum Jungle, North, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered Raymond, D (Purchase, 10 Mar 1931) Rum Jungle Northern Territory Original register: "38683. Message stick"

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman