NMA1985_0060_0778

Title: A message stick from Western Australia held in the National Museum of Australia

Description: Pigmented flat oval wooden message stick, with truncated ends. The surface is incised with cross-hatching on one side and a design of sinuous lines and geometric patterns on the other.

Creator of Object: Unknown

Date Created: 1934

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Forrest River, Western Australia, Australia

Dimension 1: 180mm Dimension 2: 35mm Dimension 3: 10mm

Materials: pigment, wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: 1985.0060.0778

Collector: Dr Herbert Basedow collection Date acquired by donor (Australian Institute of Anatomy): 1934

Coordinates: 15°10'50.800800"S,127°51'11.901600"E  (-15.180778, 127.853306)

Media copyright: The National Museum of Australia

Notes on coordinates: Random coordinates along the Forrest River, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Forrest River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

URL institution: http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/ce/message%20stick?&object=11553

IRN: 11553

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman