PM31_33_407

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 King Leopold Ranges, Western Australia, Australia

Dimension 1: 352mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-33-407

Collector: Purchased from A. E. West, 1931

Coordinates: 17°30'S,125°45'E  (-17.5, 125.75)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Random coordinates along the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges (formerly King Leopold Ranges), Western Australia, per Google maps. Wikipedia: The Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges (formerly between 1879 and 2020, the King Leopold Ranges) are a range of hills in the western Kimberley region of Western Australia.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/136396

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Nitzan Rotman