Context (Display)
Previously part of the displays in the "Kurdaitcha" exhibit, show case 2, CUMAA anthropology galleries, at some time prior to 1990;
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalaogue card for 1923.1493 A-'B notes 'Head decorations of wood (with shavings left on stick), When used on "Kurdaitcha", a fire stick is tied onto the top'.
Added later 'Length 2.3 ". Two white rabbit tail tassels attached. 15" long'
Event Date 1923
Author: maa

Context (References)
cf George Horne and George Aiston (1924). Savage Life in Central Australia. London, Macmillan
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

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: Alison Clark

Context (Field collection)
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 10/6/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Smallw ooden stick, with shavings along two thirds of the stick
Event Date 20/3/2025
Author: Rachel Hand