| Coordinates WGS84 | 30°28'S, 131°50'E -30.46, 131.84 |
Title: A message stick held in the Western Australian Museum
Description: Message stick
Item type: message stick in a collection
State/Territory: SA
Notes on linguistic areas: The message stick is associated with Ooldea district, Desert
Materials: wood
Source types: museum collection
Date collected: Unknown
Institution/Holder file: Western Australian Museum object identifier: E09007
Collector: Unknown
Coordinates: 30°27'32.900400"S,131°50'8.199600"E (-30.459139, 131.835611)
Media copyright: Western Australian Museum
Notes on coordinates: Coordinates for Ooldea, also known as Yuldea, SA
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)." 30.6.25 NR: "Ooldea, known as Yuldea and various other names by Western Desert peoples (Aṉangu), is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway." (Wikipedia).
Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman