Brisbane Times, Yuko Narushima, indigenous affairs correspondent — Two indigenous elders are on a mission to reclaim a skull, once studied by the botanist Joseph Banks, and now a world away from its ancestral home.
The Bundjalung elders, Gwen Hickling, 60, and John Morrissey, 64, yesterday boarded a plane to the Netherlands, where a medical centre will return the skull, along with the remains of four other Aboriginal people, taken in the name of science. Joining the two on their quest is an official from the Federal Government, which pledged to help repatriate ancestral remains in July. read on>> (more…)