Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says ‘tide is turning’ in its negotiations to repatriate ancestral remains and important cultural items
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After more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man killed on his traditional land have returned home.
The skull of the unknown man was taken from Tasmania in the 1830s and had been held by the University of Aberdeen since the early 1850s.
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