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Article: Tas: British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- January 2, 2002
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Tas: British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains
By Don Woolford
HOBART, Jan 2 AAP - The decision by the Royal College of Surgeons
in Britain to return
its Tasmanian Aboriginal remains was today hailed by Aboriginal leaders
as a major breakthrough
in the campaign to have ancestors' body parts returned.
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre secretary Trudy Maluga said the remains
included some hair
and skin from Truganini, the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine,
who died in 1876.
Ms Maluga said the college's holding, kept at Oxford University'
s Museum of Natural
History, included three skulls and seven jaws which still had strings
used to ward off
evil spirits ...