diff --git a/IO/Exodus/vtkModelMetadata.h b/IO/Exodus/vtkModelMetadata.h
index 92113871cee246b2627b5ba7432a88ed88cc9606..12d693938934751a9b19d8e885b7449ac3b57e2b 100644
--- a/IO/Exodus/vtkModelMetadata.h
+++ b/IO/Exodus/vtkModelMetadata.h
@@ -554,22 +554,6 @@ public:
   int *GetMapToOriginalNodeVariableNames() const {
     return this->MapToOriginalNodeVariableNames;}
 
-  // Description:
-  //   Given the name of an element variable the vtkUnstructuredGrid
-  //   described by this ModelMetadata, and a component number, give
-  //   the name of the scalar array in the original
-  //   file that turned into that component when the file was
-  //   read into VTK.
-  char *FindOriginalElementVariableName(const char *name, int component);
-
-  // Description:
-  //   Given the name of an node variable the vtkUnstructuredGrid
-  //   described by this ModelMetadata, and a component number, give
-  //   the name of the scalar array in the original
-  //   file that turned into that component when the file was
-  //   read into VTK.
-  char *FindOriginalNodeVariableName(const char *name, int component);
-
   // Description:
   //   In order to write Exodus files from vtkUnstructuredGrid
   //   objects that were read from Exodus files, we need to know