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Sacred headdress heading home to Mornington Island after 50 years abroad


Decades after it was taken to the United Kingdom, a traditional Lardil headdress is set to be returned home to Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The piece has arrived back in Australia as a part of an international repatriation program run by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
The culturally significant headdress - wound with human hair, painted with ochre and topped with emu feathers - originally belonged to the late Philip Jack, a member of the Mornington Island Dance troupe. 
The group performed at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973 before Mr Jack gifted the headdress to Maurice Routhan, who was his neighbour in Sydney before Mr Routhan returned to the UK. ....

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