An ethnological museum in the German city of Munich will return the remains of an Indigenous Australian to his Far North Queensland descendants.
An elder of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people, Gudju Gudju Fourmile, and Australian Ambassador Lynette Wood will be on hand for the ceremony, the Museum Fuenf Kontinente (Five Continents Museum) said Monday. Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler will also attend.
The Australian and Aboriginal representatives will also receive documentation and sign handover documents.
The Yidinji people are centred around Cairns.
The museum, formerly known as the State Museum for Ethnology, was founded in 1862 as the first ethnological museum in Germany.
An interdisciplinary group of German museum experts recommended in 2013 that human remains in museum collections should be returned to their places of origin in response to well-founded demands for their return.
Sibler said it was important for all museums and collections to investigate the origins of such items and return them as necessary.
