PM31_33_315

Title: A message stick held in the Penn Museum

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Mount Magnet, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 98mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-315

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 28°03'36.000000"S,117°50'45.999600"E  (-28.06, 117.846111)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mount Magnet, Western Australia, per google maps. Wikipedia: Mount Magnet is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is one of the region's original gold mining towns, and the longest surviving gold mining settlement in the state.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/290905

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman