A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in Australia by explorer Captain James Cook.
Trinity College Cambridge permanently repatriated the spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community at a ceremony Tuesday, according to a joint statement from the college and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies , which supported the move. The four spears are the last remaining examples from a collection of 40 which Cook’s records show his expedition took from the Gweagal people living at Kamay on April 29, 1770.
Some members of the La Perouse Aboriginal Community are direct descendants of those who crafted the spears, according to the statement. “They are an important connection to our past, our traditions, and cultural practices, and to our ancestors,” said Noeleen Timbery, chair of the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, in the statement. “Our Elders have worked for many years to see their ownership transferred to the traditional owners of Botany Bay.
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