In a ceremony conducted by elders of the Yung Balug clan of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, the remains of three ancestors have been buried on country, near Lake Boort in Victoria. The remains had previously been repatriated to the Dja Dja Wurrung community by Museum Victoria.
Indigenous representatives used the occasion to call for the swift repatriation of the Aboriginal ancestral remains still held by museums in Victoria and in other Australian and international collections.
Reports on this repatriation and burial ceremony can be accessed here and here.
See also the previous contribution to the SOGIP blog on the repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral remains here.
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