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Article: British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- January 2, 2002
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British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains
The Royal College of Surgeons in Britain is to return its Tasmanian
Aboriginal remains.
The move's been hailed by Aboriginal leaders as a major breakthrough
in their long
campaign to get their ancestors' body parts back from Europe.
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre secretary TRUDY MALUGA says the remains
include some hair
and skin from TRUGANINI, the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine,
who died in 1876.
Ms MALUGA says the college's holding, kept at Oxford University'
s Museum of ...