PM31_33_329

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 Wiluna, Western Australia

Dimension 1: 158mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-329

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 26°35'42.000000"S,120°13'30.000000"E  (-26.595, 120.225)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Wiluna, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Wiluna is a small town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is situated on the edge of the Western Desert at the gateway to the Canning Stock Route and Gunbarrel Highway.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/272886

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman