A collection of culturally significant Indigenous artefacts are being returned, after being taken from Australia to the UK, more than a century ago.
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00:00Representatives, including traditional owners from the Wurrumbungu community in the town
00:08of Tennen Creek in the Northern Territory, have travelled here to London to receive several
00:13Indigenous artefacts which were taken from their home country and brought here to the
00:18UK in the early 1900s.
00:22Traditional owners believe the items were exchanged for other goods and were mainly
00:26used for hunting.
00:27We're pretty much happy, you know, like, because, you know, these stuff have been taken
00:33away over 120 years ago, you know, and like we've gone back home, it's a really special
00:40thing, you know.
00:41These are artefacts that old people sat down and had a look at it and cried about them
00:48and said straight away, we want them to come back home.
00:52I'm part of a stolen generation and we aren't accepted in terms like this, but with this
01:04happening now, we've got a coming together of two different cultures.
01:09The handover is taking place at the Horniman Museum and Gardens as part of the Federal
01:13Government's Return of Cultural Heritage program.
01:16For more than 300 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material has been
01:21taken from country and placed in overseas collections.
01:25These pieces will be temporarily taken to Canberra before they're ready to be received
01:30on country where they will be displayed at an exhibition in Tennant Creek.