Indigenous artefacts returned home to Kaurna land from German museum after 180 years

Senior Kaurna man Mickey Kumatpi O'Brien said a ceremony marking their return was a "celebration" that involved "bringing cultures together".The artefacts will be available for the public to view at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

The four cultural heritage items — a kathawirri , tantanaku , wirnta and wikatyi — are considered highly significant for Kaurna people and are more than 180 years old.The gifts were collected around 1840 by the Lutheran Mission Society and sent to the German city of Dresden, and then later put on display at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

"We found some letters that referenced these items going to Germany in 1840 and through that we took a visit with the language group to Germany," he said."Our people were always about bringing cultures together."Mr O'Brien said the items had originally been given as gifts to German missionaries, whom he said recorded "some 3,000 words" which later created an "opportunity to reclaim our language".

"More than 2,000 cultural heritage items have been returned to 15 communities across Australia," she said. "Repatriation helps us to tell the full story of this country's history. It is a small insight into 65,000 years of connection to country.

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