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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nick Forbes

Skull of Aboriginal man murdered 200 years ago to be returned to Tasmania

William MacGillivray, regius professor of natural history at Marischal College in Aberdeen, originally acquired the skull (Alamy/PA) -

A ceremony to repatriate the skull of a young Tasmanian man which was used for medical education in the 19th and 20th centuries will take place on Friday.

The man was shot dead on Tasmania’s Shannon River in possibly the 1820s or 1830s, and his head removed “in order to service (the) trade in Aboriginal body parts”.

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