Sacred artifacts to return from the UK to Burketown

Derek Barry
Updated November 22 2019 - 3:42pm, first published 3:40pm
TRADITION: Mangubadijarri Yanner and Donald Bob oversee the transfer of the artifacts in Manchester. Photo: AIATSIS
TRADITION: Mangubadijarri Yanner and Donald Bob oversee the transfer of the artifacts in Manchester. Photo: AIATSIS

The University of Manchester in England is handing back a series of artifacts to traditional Aboriginal owners, mostly in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.