Context (CMS Context)
There is no location and storage information for this number. It is possible that this item has since been found and allocated a new number and keyword; Found: Northeast of Lake Eyre; Central Australia; Collected by: Horne.Dr.G
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
Two raddled, wooden bullroarers, with strings of human hair attached. Churinga are inscribed with sacred designs, which represent a totemic ancestor. Aboriginal women and uninitiated boys are forbidden to see them. Their meaning is only fully divulged to men who are initiated into that totem and who are of elder status. Those with a hole bored in one end (stone ones excepted), for the attachment of a cord, are called bullroarers. When whirled round, they produce a characteristic sound believed to be " spirit talk"
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
Collected and donated by Melbourne surgeon, Dr George Horne, probably during his 1923 expedition to the Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, with fellow Australian ethnographer and guide George Aiston who lived there from 1912. The results of the expedition were published in Savage Life in central Australia (1924). This was an account of the Wangkangurru and Dieri (or Diyari) peoples in the east of Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre.

Although known by various names by different Aboriginal group, since December 2012 Lake Eyre has been known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, following requests by the Arabana people who had been granted native title earlier that year. Kati Thanda, means meeting place of bosses and also thunder and lightning, updates the inland sea's name commemorating explorer Edward John Eyre.

The Woukouguru people are now now known as Wangkangurru and the native title rights and interests of Wangkangurru/Yarluyandi people were recognised in their Native Title Claim determination of October 2014.
Event Date 3/6/2020
Author: rachel hand