Documentary film about repatriation of Arnhem Land human remains

Documentary film about repatriation of Arnhem Land human remains
Tuesday 4 October 2011

Martin Thomas of ACIH is working with the Arnhem Land community of Gunbalanya, making a documentary film about the theft of human remains during the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and their repatriation sixty years later. In July this year, the bones were wrapped in paperbark and buried as part of an elaborate ceremony.

Further coverage of this event is available at: The Age and ABC news.

 

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