PM31_33_325

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 Sir Samuel, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 138mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-325

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 27°42'52.599600"S,120°39'5.799600"E  (-27.714611, 120.651611)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Mount Sir Samuel, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Sir Samuel is an abandoned town located between Leinster and Wiluna in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The name is derived from the nearby Mount Sir Samuel that was named after Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, Sir Samuel James Way by the explorer Lawrence Wells, who was on a surveying expedition in the area in 1892.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/10913

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman