'Stone tools, ethnographic artefacts and photographs - George Horne's 1922 Lake Eyre collections'?

David Kaus is a senior curator in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs at the National Museum of Australia. David holds an Honours degree in Archaeology from the ANU and a Masters degree in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Canberra. He has had a long association with the National Museum's Indigenous collections and has published two books and several articles on them.

David has recently commenced detailed research on Horne's collection and his talk will focus on material acquired during a trip to Mungeranie on the Birdsville track in 1922. While at Mungeranie Horne recorded information about stone tools and wooden implements directly from local Aboriginal people which led to the publication of a book with George Aiston, Savage Life in Central Australia, in 1924. David will discuss the information Horne recorded and show images of artefacts from Horne's collection and photographs taken during Horne's trip.

State: ACT

Where: Manning Clark Theatre 6, Australian National University, Acton

When: Tuesday 18th May 2010 7.30pm

Cost: Gold coin donation

Contact: Helen Cooke 0408 443 243