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Abe Maddison and Lloyd Jones

'Very special to us': stockman's final journey home

Nearly seven decades after the death of an Aboriginal stockman, he will be buried on Country. (Abe Maddison/AAP PHOTOS)

The remains of an Aboriginal stockman kept in a museum for 60 years have been handed to his family, who have begun a marathon journey to rebury him on Country.

Thomas Cowell was droving cattle in South Australia's Far North when he was found dead of a suspected heart attack at Kopperamanna Bore in March 1959, aged about 65.

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