180-year-old Indigenous artefacts, sent to Germany in 1840, are returned to Kaurna people in South Australia.
180-year-old Indigenous artefacts, sent to Germany in 1840 by Lutheran missionaries, have been returned to the Kaurna people in South Australia. The artefacts include a kathawirri (sword), tantanaku (club or bark peeler), wirnta (spear), and wikatyi (net). The Kaurna people and Grassi Museum in Leipzig began discussing the artefacts' return in 2019, following an application by senior Kaurna man Michael Kumatpi O'Brien. The items were welcomed back to Australia by Mitzi Nam, chairperson of Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC, and cared for by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies before being returned.
May 03, 2024
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