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This UK museum put aside the culture wars to return 174 Indigenous artefacts

Hans van Leeuwen
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

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Manchester | In a long, airy gallery in Manchester’s Victorian-era, neo-Gothic museum, Noeleen Danjibana Lalara is close to tears.

“I’m a bit emotional,” the Anindikyakwa senior elder says understatedly, flanked by two other women who have made the epic trip from Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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