Receiving ancestors: Michael Pickering

Dr. Michael Pickering, from the Australian National Museum, describes how the repatriation unit was set up, its role and how skeletal remains and indigenous artefacts that can be identified are returned. “We have been privileged on occasion to be invited to those funerals.”

Keywords: Racism; values; heritage; material culture

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