| Coordinates WGS84 | 30°41'S, 123°20'E -30.68, 123.34 |
Title: A message stick held in the Western Australian Museum
Description: Message stick
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: WA
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Cundeelee (Desert is listed as the region in the database)
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: Western Australian Museum object identifier: A23327
Collector: Unknown
Coordinates: 30°40'48.000000"S,123°20'24.000000"E (-30.68, 123.34)
Media copyright: Western Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Approximate coordinates for Cundeelee
Notes: Email from RC on 16.12.2024: "I’ve now had time to produce a list of message sticks (just basic data) from the database that are/were in the Museum’s collection. Note that there are 73 from this list that have been repatriated to community. I’m about to head off on extended leave tomorrow so won’t have time to produce anything more detailed. However, the information by and large reflects the information that is captured in the registers. And as background message sticks are typically categorised a short cylindrical stick that has an incised decoration applied to it (think clapping stick with various regional designs applied, though the thickness can vary from 15-20mm)." 14.5.25 NR: "Cundeelee is a small Aboriginal community in Western Australia located 785 kilometres (488 mi) east of Perth and 160 kilometres (99 mi) east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Cundeelee was closed in the 1980s and most of the residents moved to Coonana. Some of the Aboriginal people moved back to their traditional lands at Cundeelee in 1984." (per Wikipedia)
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman