NMA_IR_5123_0006

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

Description: Message stick associated with Kurrawang Mission. A cylindrical, oblong wooden message stick patterned with black pokerwork incised markings. The pattern is comprised of dotted markings grouped between bands of longitudanal lines and is blackened at the truncated end.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with "Kurrawang Mission"

Dimension 1: 259mm Dimension 2: 17mm Dimension 3: 11mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: The National Museum of Australia object identifier: IR 5123.0006

Collector: Norman Hill collection

Coordinates: 30°49'46.401600"S,121°19'48.698400"E  (-30.829556, 121.330194)

Media copyright: The National Museum of Australia

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Kurrawang, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Kurrawang is a town in Western Australia between Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie just off Great Eastern Highway in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. (https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/kurrawang-mission/) Kurrawang Mission, near Kalgoorlie, was established as a ‘native reserve’ in 1952 by the Gospel Brethren (later known as Christian Brethren). Kurrawang Mission was located off the Great Eastern Highway, between Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, Western Australia (Building Still standing)

URL institution: http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/ce/message%20stick?&object=194397

IRN: 194397

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Nitzan Rotman