Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card notes for 1912.1535 A-B: 'Two Kurdaitcha knives (Urabunaa, Kardapa). Made from quartzite, with wooden handles attached by hair string. Raddled'
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: rachel hand

Context (CMS Context)
Found: Northeast of Lake Eyre; Central Australia; Collected by: Horne.Dr.G
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
All items associated with kurdaitcha are ceremonial items and are therefore classed as secret/sacred material, and should not be shown to Indigenous Australian women without warning them first.

This note is written on the advice of Gamilaroi researchers Amy Hammond and Marc Sutherland.
Event Date 19/4/2018
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
A was part of the Australian display in the Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990- 2005
Event Date 10/6/2020
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 9/6/2020
Author: rachel hand