John Danalis’ family home was full of curios: old bottles, tobacco tins, a rusty dingo trap – stuff retrieved from sheds and old farms.

Amidst all these relics, on the family mantlepiece, was a human skull they named Mary.

John was an adult before he was shocked into finding out where the skull had come from, and how he could take Mary home.

Listen to John’s interview with Richard Fidler here.

Barry Heard