Description (Physical description)
One of four sticks, coloured with red ochre, with sharp, stone points. Used for boring holes in "inchicha" (bullroarers), "cooritoorooka" and Initiation shells.
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Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Field collection)
Found: Northeast of Lake Eyre; Central Australia; Collected by: Horne.Dr.G
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Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue cards notes for 1923.1530 A-D: 'Four sticks, coloured with red ochre, with sharp, stone points. Used for boring holes in " inchicha" (bullroarers), " cooritoorooka" [?and] Initiation shells [?]'
Event Date
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 groups, 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 colonial name commemorating the 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 19/11/2020
Author: rachel hand