Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than 170 years in a Scottish university collection, and before that some years ...

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 ...

The University of Aberdeen has repatriated a murdered Aboriginal man's remains, thought to have been obtained during a colonial conquest in Tasmania. It is believed the young man was decapitated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The only thing known about him is that he was a member of the Big River tribe - one of many tribes that have been completely wiped out and for which ... Plans for the repatriation of the remains began ...

After more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man who was killed on his Country have returned home.

“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 ...

A rare Tasmanian shell necklace that was donated to a Scottish university in the 19th century is returning to its homeland, 30 years after the first request for its repatriation. The 148cm-long ...