Century: Torres and Material

century: The material included skulls, a jawbone and other fragments from the Torres Strait archipelago, collected by Europeans in the 19th century as scientific specimens and anthropological curios, according to The Guardian. The museum had agreed that the remains should be given back to their originating community and it was finally time to take them home. He was on a mission to collect the bones of his ancestors. A private ceremony was held David is reluctant to share the details with outsiders and afterwards he and his fellow islanders went back to their hotel. Mate, he says, it was sombre with a capital S'. There was sort of this eerie feeling after all the hoo-ha and the media, and whatever. But the mood wasn't celebratory. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.