MusV_X_038684

Title: A message stick from Rum Jungle in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV object description, PDF: :A rectangular elliptical shaped section of wood incised with geometric patterns on both sides and hole in the centre of one side."

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: 265mm Dimension 2: 35mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 38684

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 038684, Message stick, Rum Jungle, North, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered Raymond, D (Purchase, 10 Mar 1931) Rum Jungle Northern Territory Original register: "38684. Same as No. 38683 [Message Stick]"

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman