UQAM8441

Title: A message stick from Gogo Station, Kimberley, held in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Description: Message stick. Physical Description: Object is in a display case. Resembles message stick no:8442 exactly, but is slightly smaller. Long, rounded smooth surface, dark brown in colour. Tapered at both ends (one more so than the other). No patter, has a darker brown paint mark though.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: WA

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Gogo Station, Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley region, Western Australia, Australia

Materials: wood

Source types: museum collection

Date collected: Unknown

Institution/Holder file: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum object identifier: 8441

Collector: Collected and sourced by: Mr Arthur Millard

Coordinates: 18°17'33.000000"S,125°35'13.498800"E  (-18.2925, 125.587083)

Media copyright: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Gogo Station, near Fitzroy Crossing, per Google maps

URL institution: https://catalogue.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/?record=ecatalogue.8441

Notes: 24.3.25 NR: Wikipedia: "Gogo or Gogo Station and sometimes referred to as Margaret Downs is a pastoral lease that has operated as a cattle station. It is located about 11 kilometres (7 mi) south of Fitzroy Crossing and 83 kilometres (52 mi) north east of Yungngora in the Kimberley region of Western Australia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogo_Station 24.5.25 NR: note that item 8442, mentioned in the physical description of this item (8441), is not listed on the UQAM website, and could not be found even when using the Advanced Search option by Accession Number. 12.06.25 PK: I believe Ray Kerkhove refers to this object on page 98 of his book 'How they fought' with a glossing and sketch illustration.

Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman