Twenty cultural objects handed back to Australia’s Warumungu community
The Fowler Museum handed 20 cultural objects, including a hooked boomerang, knives and fighting implements, to representatives of the Warumungu community of Tennant Creek. Elders, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and museum staff worked together to identify the objects before the permanent return.
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