PM31_33_402

Title: A message stick held in the Penn Museum

Message: Death message.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

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

Dimension 1: 150mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-402

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. As this item was collected at the same time as PM31_33_315, I assumed that "Mount Marnum" is a seplling mistake for "Mount Magnet". 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/8680

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman