Return of artefacts after 50 years 'will be remembered'

Warlpiri man Jimmy Jungarrayi Spencer provided critical insight into his culture in the 1970s. (Supplied/AAP PHOTOS)

When Austrian researcher Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt travelled to Australia in the 1970s, he was given rare access to the Warlpiri people of the Northern Territory. 

Senior Warlpiri lore men Jimmy Jungarrayi Spencer and Banjo Jungarrayi Tex, supported Professor Eibl-Eibesfeldt's research at their community of Yuendumu, almost 300 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs.