Fed: Museums return collections of Aboriginal remains

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Fed: Museums return collections of Aboriginal remains

The remains of 300 Aboriginal people taken from their graves more than a century agowill be returned to the Ngarrindjeri people in the lower Murray Lakes and Coorong areain South Australia.

The return of the remains -- organised by the National Museum of Australia -- willbe the largest repatriation of ancestral remains since the program began four years ago.

The remains will be officially handed over next Monday.

The Ngarrindjeri remains were originally taken from gravesites between 1898 and 1906and were returned to the museum by the Edinburgh University, Australian Museum and RoyalCollege of Surgeons in London.

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KEYWORD: REMAINS (MELBOURNE)