One of the most curious items in our collection is this taxidermied rabbit doll with a bead and a button for eyes. Its torso is constructed from calico and other fabrics, as well as wadding and raw wooden sticks.

The doll was a prop in director Justin Kurzel’s hyper-intense version of the Ned Kelly myth, True History of the Kelly Gang (2019). This stitched-together creation – rabbit head, stick limbs, calico outfit – is idiosyncratic and disquieting, a fitting representative of Kurzel's rock'n'roll adaptation of Peter Carey's novel.