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Manchester Museum and AIATSIS are pleased to announce the unconditional repatriation of 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects.

A handover ceremony in Illinois has signified the official repatriation of 42 culturally significant items to Traditional Owners.

Six culturally-important items belonging to Warumungu people have left the Tūhura Otago Museum in Dunedin in New Zealand to travel to Australia following a handover ceremony.

A ceremony today in Auckland saw the formal return of material of significant cultural interest to the Warumungu community.

After an absence of over a century six Warumungu objects will return to Australia following discussions between AIATSIS, the Warumungu community of the Tennant Creek region and the Tūhura Otago Museum in Dunedin in New Zealand.

AIATSIS is leading the Return of Cultural Heritage project which is seeking to return cultural heritage material from overseas.

AIATSIS welcomes the announcement that Aranda people of Central Australia and Bardi Jawi people of the northern Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia will have 42 culturally significant objects returned from overseas.

AIATSIS and Manchester Museum sign formal partnership

Yesterday, the Gangalidda Garawa people gathered to celebrate the return of culturally significant items from the Manchester Museum.