The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university.

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A ceremony to repatriate the skull of a young Tasmanian man which was used for medical education in the 19th and 20th centuries will take place on Friday. The man was shot dead on Tasmania’s Shannon ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...

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A ceremony to return the skull of a young Tasmanian man, used for medical education in the 19th and 20th centuries, is scheduled for Friday. The man was tragically killed on Tasmania's Shannon ...

Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than ...

“There can be no doubt that this skull was removed from the man shot at the Shannon River in order to service (the) trade in Aboriginal body parts,” it said. “The decapitation was most ...

“It would be unacceptable for these ancestral remains to be used for research, teaching or exhibitions purposes:” A Tasmanian Aboriginal murder victim’s skull held in Scotland for 170 years is coming ...