Tas: British breakthrough on Aboriginal remains
By Don Woolford
HOBART, Jan 2 AAP - The decision by the Royal College of Surgeons in Britain to returnits Tasmanian Aboriginal remains was today hailed by Aboriginal leaders as a major breakthroughin the campaign to have ancestors' body parts returned.
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre secretary Trudy Maluga said the remains included some hairand skin from Truganini, the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine, who died in 1876.
Ms Maluga said the college's holding, kept at Oxford University's Museum of NaturalHistory, included three skulls and seven jaws which still had strings used to ward …
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