MusV_X_064559

Title: A message stick from Kunmunya, Kimberley, in Museums Victoria

Description: Message stick, Kunmunya, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Registered Balfour, Mr Harry Rainy (Donation, Mar 1963) Kunmunya Western Australia

Date Created: 1963

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 64559; X 064559

Coordinates: 17°21'21.898800"S,123°41'58.401600"E  (-17.356083, 123.699556)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mowanjum Community, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Mowanjum is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located 10 km (6 mi) south east of Derby in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Derby-West Kimberley. At the 2016 Australian census, Mowanjum had a population of 311. The settlement began after the establishment of a mission station by the Presbyterian Church in 1912, first called the Port George IV mission and later Kunmunya.

Notes: MusV data: "X 064559, Message stick, Kunmunya, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Registered Balfour, Mr Harry Rainy (Donation, Mar 1963) Kunmunya Western Australia "

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman