Indigenous ancestral remains returned from US museums

Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner conducted a smoking ceremony to mark the repatriation of remains. (HANDOUT/DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS)

The remains of 14 Indigenous ancestors kept in American museums have returned to Australia.

The bodies were repatriated from the Fowler Museum at the University of California, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Oakland Museum of California and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.