Title: A message stick from Western Australia in Museums Victoria
Description: Message stick, Western Australia, Australia, Registered Heckley, Mr (Purchase, 13 Sep 1954) Western Australia
Date Created: 1954
Notes on date created: terminus ante quem
Item type: message stick in a collection
Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 48978; X 048978
Media copyright: Museums Victoria
Notes: MusV data: "X 048978, Message stick, Western Australia, Australia, Registered Heckley, Mr (Purchase, 13 Sep 1954). Western Australia" 21.11.24 PK: checked register with RM. This is marked as sensitive by R. Chadwick. However there is a list of both "churingas" and message sticks from the same collector. PK saw the image and it did not have tjurunga designs. From MusV original register: "Western Australia. Purchased from Mr Heckley for £2.00. Presented to HRH Prince of Wales 9/11/56"
Data Entry: Piers Kelly