Article: Tas: British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains

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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 ...

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