Spears taken by Captain Cook in 1770 to be returned to Sydney's La Perouse Aboriginal community

The surviving Kamay spears were given to Cambridge's Trinity College in 1771. (Supplied: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

Four spears taken during Captain James Cook's landing at Sydney's Botany Bay will be handed back to the local Indigenous community more than 250 years later.

The spears are the last remaining of 40 gathered from Aboriginal people living around Kurnell at Kamay, also known as Botany Bay, where Captain Cook and his crew first set foot in Australia in 1770.