UK museum’s decision rattles researchers.

The origins of the small collection of bones that will soon travel from London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) to Tasmania say much about why the journey has taken so long to come about — and is still so controversial. One skull comes from an unnamed Tasmanian aboriginal woman, shot by a white settler and later decapitated. The curatorial description for another set of remains notes coolly that: “There has been white settlement of Tasmania since 1802. The remnants of the blacks being removed from the island in 1831.”

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UK museum’s decision rattles researchers.

The origins of the small collection of bones that will soon travel from London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) to Tasmania say much about why the journey has taken so long to come about — and is still so controversial. One skull comes from an unnamed Tasmanian aboriginal woman, shot by a white settler and later decapitated. The curatorial description for another set of remains notes coolly that: “There has been white settlement of Tasmania since 1802. The remnants of the blacks being removed from the island in 1831.”

Read the story here.