Skulls Returning
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Wed, 1 May 91 13:26:00 PDT
AUSTRALIA
About 300 human skulls of Australian aborigines are to be
returned to Australia by the University of Edinburgh in
Scotland. Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Robert Tickner, said
the decision is a major breakthrough in the campaign to return
aboriginal remains collected by so-called "grave robbing over-
seas institutions." Tickner said that the date of the return
of the Edinburgh collection is still to be decided, and that
the university may not be able to determine where the skulls
originated in Australia. (Radio Australia 4/27)
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