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Aboriginal cricket tour items found in UK

A BRITISH Museum curator has uncovered artefacts from the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England at a museum in the English city of Exeter.

A BOOMERANG, spear throwers and firesticks are among artefacts from the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England rediscovered at a museum in the UK.

GAYE Sculthorpe, curator of the Oceania section at the British Museum, found the items at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter last week.

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