The British Museum is celebrating recovered items in its new exhibition, but it continues to refuse to return historically looted items in its own collection to countries of origin.
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Stone tools, clubs, boomerangs, decorative shellwork: a survey of 45 museums in the UK has found a vast number of Indigenous Australian objects. Not all were stolen; some were gifted or traded.
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Research Fellow in History, University of Southampton
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Curator & Section Head, Oceania, The British Museum
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Co-Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University
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Head of Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Translation & Transcultural Studies, University of Warwick
