PM31_33_393

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 Meekatharra District, Western Australia, Australia

Dimension 1: 112mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-393

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 26°35'36.999600"S,118°29'43.000800"E  (-26.593611, 118.495278)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Meekatharra, Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Meekatharra is a Yamatji word meaning "place of little water".

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/166334

Notes: Please note, that there are two more entries on the web-site (identifying numbers 31-33-320 [https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/82710] and 31-33-321[https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/230119]) with the same image. All three entries seem to have different "other number": 922, 601 and 604. Not clear if there is one object, or three different.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman