M0017080EA: Stone tjurunga, or churinga, Australia

Photograph of a stone tjurunga, or churinga, an object considered to be of religious significance by Aboriginal people from Central Australia. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5307/1936). It was removed from the Musuem in 1966.

1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the item: R5307/1936

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.