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Museum to return items to Indigenous Australians

Four objects from the Warumungu people will be returned from a New Zealand museum to country in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Two hooked boomerangs ( wartilykirri), an adze (palya/ kupija) and an axe ( ngurrulumuru) were collected by anthropologist Baldwin Spencer and telegraph operator James Field. In the early 1900s, the men amassed more than 6,000 items from central Australia that have since been dispersed around the world. The four objects now in the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum will be returned later this year.

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