They were acquired by a British professor visiting the Outback but languished for years in a store room.
community has been handed back 174 cultural items held by a British museum for decades.
They included include shell dolls, bark baskets and spear throwers acquired by Peter Worsley, a former professor at The University of Manchester, when he visited Australia in the 1950s.A group of Dadikwakwa-kwa, or doll Shells, have been returned to an Indigenous Australian community by Manchester Museum in the UK.
They had been kept in a storeroom and not displayed for the public or used in academic teaching for years. "The return of these significant cultural heritage items is important for Australia's reconciliation process.
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