Aboriginal elders from Groote Eylandt wept as they took back a priceless collection of 174 artefacts bought by a British professor in 1953 at Manchester Museum on Tuesday.
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174 cultural items taken from a remote indigenous community in the 1950s by an English anthropologist have been handed over to elders in what experts hope will prove to be a ‘trigger’ for other museums to return similar materials. Members of the Anindilyakwa community travelled to the English city of Manchester for the emotional ceremony. Later this year, the items will be returned to Groote Island, 50 kilometres off the Northern Territory Coast.