UOG_GLAHM_E_1928_57

Title: A message stick held in the University of Glasgow, Hunterian collection

Description: UoG online catalogue: "message stick, at one end a human figure holds something in an outstretched hand. Round dots and markings elsewhere."

Date Created: 1928

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem UoG online catalogue: "probably 19th century"

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with inland north of the Murchison River, Mid West Region, Western Australia (cultural group: Ngarla [Bidungu])

Dimension 1: 180mm

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Purchased: 1928

Institution/Holder file: University of Glasgow - Hunterian collection object identifier: GLAHM:E.1928.57 E.1928.57

Collector: Purchase from Emile Clement, 1928

Coordinates: 25°36'4.100400"S,120°29'58.099200"E  (-25.601139, 120.499472)

Media copyright: University of Glasgow - Hunterian collection

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Lake Nabberu, Western Australia, per Google maps. AIATSIS Collection: ".....Bidungo = Birdungu language A40. Location information: on the Gascoyne near Shaw's, east of the Port about 300 miles, we come to what is called the Peedong tribe, which extends along the Gascoyne right by Milgin, Lake Nabberoo, all round by Brown's, 40 miles E. of Milgin, and Peak Hill....."

URL institution: https://www.gla.ac.uk/collections/#/details?irn=101825&catType=C&referrer=/results&q=message+stick

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman