Context (Field collection)
Found in Northeast of Lake Eyre, Central Australia. Collected by Dr George Horne.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes for 1923.1481 A-B: 'Two implements used by the Arunta for cutting hair off dead bodies. They are known as "Ratcha paruncha" (Wonknonguru name) or "Yelkalinna" (Unikonguru name)'.
Event Date 1923
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
Displayed as part of the Australia Case (No. 15 & 16), Maudslay Hall, from 2005.
Event Date 1/2005
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.

Event Date 9/6/2020
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2023.5746 | Surface Clean
Event Date 27/6/2023
Author: Deborah Walton