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Rabbit Doll prop from True History of the Kelly Gang
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Title:
Rabbit Doll prop from True History of the Kelly Gang
NFSA ID
1666886
Year
2019
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.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.