skull Indigenous A man believed to be killed by the colonists in the early nineteenth century. Tasmania From a British university.
The University of Aberdeen said in a statement published on Wednesday that the remains of the unknown young man will be put in place to rest in a festive burial on the Australian island on Friday.
The Tasmania Center for the Native Population, which will be bound to be postponed for the long time, was contacted for the first time by the Scottish University in 2019 with a proposal to return the homeland. This was approved in the following year.
The university said that the details of how the university became in the possession of the skull – which lacks the lower jaw – is limited. What is known is that he was part of William McGagrifray collection, a professor of natural history at Marchel College, a pioneer at the Haditan University.
When Macgillivray died in 1852, the university bought his group. The sales catalog described this purchase as the remains as belonging to “a citizen from the land of Van Deiman, who was shot on the Shannon River.” The Land of Van Dien was the colonial name of Tasmana.
There is no surviving record to explain how the skull was obtained. It was initially kept in the comparative anatomy group before it was transferred to its human cultural group in the early first decade of the twentieth century.
Once again in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, it was used to teach medicine.
According to the Tasmania Center for the indigenous population, which was quoted in the university’s statement, “This skull has no doubt that this skull was removed from the man who was called the Shannon River for service (services) in parts of the original population.”
Neil Cortis, head of museums and private groups at the University of Aberdeen, is seen with the residue container to be rested. – University of Aberdeen
He said about the killing, which may have occurred in the 1820s or thirties of the nineteenth century: “The head is likely to be beheaded by one of the killers, arrow guards, real estate owners, or tenants participating or associated with the killing of the man.”
The statement said that although the man’s identity is unlikely to arise at all, it is known that it was part of the large river tribe, which was completely eliminated.
Andre Scolorest, from the Tasmania Center from the indigenous population, stressed the importance of re -repetition. He said: “The indigenous people feel the tremendous responsibility of restoring our country both material remains, and through them, the lives of the death of our ancestors.
“This records racist attitudes to study humanity, including the human remains acquired by the negligent theft and other immoral activity; in this case, killing.
“We commend the institutions that have the courage to abandon their perceptions of intellectual excellence, embrace their own humanity and do what is right by people who are affected more than the atrocities they have inflicted in the past.
The University of Aberdeen said that it has “a firm procedure to consider returning home from the groups in its care” and its previous returns that included the bronze of Benin, which returned to Nigeria in 2021.
“Given the violence and racism that led to its acquisition, it will be unacceptable that these ancestors be used in research, teaching or exhibitions,” said Nile Cortis, head of museums and collections of the university.
“We are happy that the remains of this young man can now be delivered to the original population center in Tasmania for his appropriate burial in his homeland.”
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