PM31_33_338

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 Bernia Island, Western Australia, Australia

Dimension 1: 368mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-338

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 24°51'19.900800"S,113°08'5.899200"E  (-24.855528, 113.134972)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Bernier Island, Western Australia, per Google maps. I assumed that "Bernia Island" is a spelling mistake for "Bernier Island". Wikipedia: Bernier Island is one of three islands that comprise the Bernier and Dorre Island Nature Reserve in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/159621

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman