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Article: FED: UK to return more Aboriginal remains
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- January 7, 2009
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-07-2009
FED: UK to return more Aboriginal remains
By Miles Godfrey
SYDNEY, Jan 7 AAP - Another set of Aboriginal remains held at a British museum for
almost a century are to be returned to Australia.
Two skulls and two thigh bones kept by the Booth Museum of Natural History, in Brighton,
East Sussex, are expected to be repatriated within days.
The remains are the latest in a series being returned under an agreement struck between
the British and Australian governments in 2005.
In December it was confirmed that three Aboriginal skulls taken to Oxford University
in 1860 would be brought home, and in July last year, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
in ...