After being kept in a regional Victorian museum for about 150 years, a collection of Aboriginal artefacts is being returned to the Kaurna people in South Australia.
In 1878, the Burke Museum in the north-east Victorian town of Beechworth sent a collection of Aboriginal artefacts to the Paris World Expo.A collection of artefacts taken from the Kaurna people in South Australia are being returnedA Kaurna elder says repatriation of artefacts is an important part of the healing process
About 20 years ago, during a bad bushfire season, many items in the Burke Museum's collection were taken down and put into storage for safekeeping.During that process, research was done about where the items had come from, and questions started to be asked about whether they should be returned to their rightful owners.
"It's quite a significant collection, the one that we hold, and returning them to their traditional owners is a really important thing for the museum to do," he said. "This bears well for our younger generation into the future, but it also bears well for that education, sharing that knowledge, and the utilisation of this collection that's been held away and denied too long from us."The healing process
Dja Dja Wurrung message sticks that were gifted to the Burke Museum in 2018 after a number of artefacts were returned.
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