MusV_X_101848

Title: A message stick Desert East, Northern Territory, in the collection of Museums Victoria

Description: From MV object description and object photographs (both in MV PDF): A wooden message stick with wooden, incised vertical and horizontal lines, oval cross section. A card label attached with thin copper wire reads 'Aningie Station C. Aust, Intertribal pass'.

Date Created: 1999

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem (bequest dated 15 March 1999)

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Desert East, Aningie Station, Northern Territory

Dimension 1: 130mm Dimension 2: 21mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: wood

Institution/Holder file: Museums Victoria object identifier: X 101848

Collector: MW McKeown

Place collected: Aningie Station?

Coordinates: 21°50'52.198800"S,133°07'19.898400"E  (-21.847833, 133.122194)

Media copyright: Museums Victoria

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Anningie Homestead, Northern territory, per Google maps. Bonzle: Anningie in the Northern Territory is a homestead about 1070km south-southeast of Darwin. Aningie = Anningie?

Notes: MusV data: "X 101848, Message stick, Desert East, Northern Territory, Australia, Registered [DDX 273] McKeown, (Estate of) M W (Bequest, 15 Mar 1999) M.W. McKeown (Estate of) Collection MV PDF: 1999-03-15 (donated) 2006-02-15 (registered)

Media Files:

Data Entry: Alexandra Roginski, Nitzan Rotman