Conversations between communities and institutions around the world are ramping up, with museums and universities agreeing to return culturally significant items. But in the case of the British Museum, there is one big roadblock.
Cambridge University has surrendered a set of spears taken the momentous day when Sydney’s Indigenous people first set eyes on their eventual colonisers.
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Almost 254 years ago to the day, the Endeavour arrived on the shores of Kamay (Botany Bay). Now, spears thrown in defence of Country are being returned to the community.