Spirit will be set free: remains of young Aboriginal man returned to Tasmania after 170 years in UK

After more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man killed on his traditional land have returned home. The skull of the unknown man was taken from Tasmania in the 1830s and had been held by the University of Aberdeen since the early 1850s. It is understood he was part of the Big River tribe and was shot at Shannon river in the island state’s Central Highlands. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre’s Andry Sculthorpe and elder Jeanette James arrived in Hobart with the remains on Thursday. They also brought back a shell necklace, made by

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