NMA1985_0065_0100

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

Description: Flat oval wooden message stick incised with abstract and symbolic geometric lines.

Creator of Object: Unknown

Date Created: 1948

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 East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia

Cultural region: WA_kimberley

Dimension 1: 185mm Dimension 2: 60mm Dimension 3: 15mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: 1985.0065.0100

Collector: Keith Goddard collection Date acquired by donor (Australian Institute of Anatomy): 1948

Coordinates: 15°31'44.198400"S,127°09'12.301200"E  (-15.528944, 127.153417)

Media copyright: The National Museum of Australia

Notes on coordinates: Approximate mid point coordinates for the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, Western Australia.

URL institution: http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/ce/message%20stick?&object=15362

IRN: 15362

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman