PM31_34_331

Title: A message stick held in the Penn Museum

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Wardaman, Northern Australia

Dimension 1: 86mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Institution/Holder file: Penn Museum object identifier: 31-34-331

Collector: Australian Expedition, Daniel Sutherland Davidson, 1931

Coordinates: 15°14'24.000000"S,131°32'40.999200"E  (-15.24, 131.544722)

Media copyright: Penn Museum

Notes on coordinates: Approximate mid point of Wardaman Land, North Territory, per Bowern’s Google Earth coordinates. Wikipedia: The Wardaman people are a small group of Aboriginal Australians living about 145 kilometres (90 mi) South-West of Katherine, on Menngen Aboriginal Land Trust in the Northern Territory of Australia.

URL institution: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/143931

Data Entry: Julia Bespamyatnykh, Piers Kelly, Nitzan Rotman