MusV_X_044105

Title: A message stick from McArthur River in Museums Victoria

Description: MusV Object description, PDF: "A cylindrical section of wood incised with designs". MusV database: "X 044105, Message stick, McArthur River, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen (Presented, 1902) Spencer and Gillen Collection McArthur River Northern Territory" Original register: "44105. Message stick. Locality: MacArthur R. N.T. How obtained: Spencer & Gillen"

Date Created: 1902

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (c. 1901–1902)

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Australia, McArthur River, Northern Territory

Dimension 1: 155mm Dimension 2: 15mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Date collected: 1901–1902 (c.)

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 44105

Collector: Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen

Place collected: McArthur River

Coordinates: 15°54'0.000000"S,136°40'0.001200"E  (-15.9, 136.666667)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for the McArthur River mouth near the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The McArthur River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria at Port McArthur, opposite the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands.

Notes: MusV data: "X 044105, Message stick, McArthur River, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen (Presented, 1902) Spencer and Gillen Collection McArthur River Northern Territory " Registered 1940 The object is also recorded here: http://spencerandgillen.net/objects/50ce72f2023fd7358c8a919e

Media Files:

Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman