Members of Tasmania's Aboriginal communities are calling on international institutions to repatriate their cultural treasures, arguing 'loans' are not good enough because 'nobody borrows their own belongings'.
abc.net.au/news/tasmanian-aboriginals-want-cultural-objects-returned/102010984Members of Tasmania's Aboriginal communities are calling on international institutions to repatriate their cultural treasures, arguing "loans" are not good enough because "nobody borrows their own belongings".
"It's pretty powerful," said the museum's former senior curator of First Peoples art and culture and pakana artist Zoe Rimmer. They are on loan from various museums around the world — something pakana artist Theresa Sainty finds hard to reconcile.
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