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Article: Fed: Aboriginal remains to be returned from Swedish museums
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- October 22, 2003
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AAP General News (Australia)
10-22-2003
Fed: Aboriginal remains to be returned from Swedish museums
CANBERRA, Oct 22 AAP - Aboriginal remains and thousands of sacred objects held in Swedish
museums could be returned to Australia as early as next year.
The Swedish government has offered to return the remains and objects, including 13
sets of human remains held in the Swedish Ethnography Museum.
The remains are believed to be from the Kimberley, in Western Australia, and possibly
also Queensland.
ATSIC commissioner Rodney Dillon today said he hoped the offer would encourage more
than 26 other countries holding indigenous remains to return them to Australia.
"Sweden is the first ...