00:03A Fijian farewell as the Australian Museum in Sydney signed over custodianship of what
00:09rightfully belongs to the people of Rapa Nui.
00:12On behalf of the Australian Museum I offer an unreserved apology.
00:19We acknowledge that our institution took part in the purchase of human remains.
00:26Marked by ceremonies of song and dance, a delegation from Rapa Nui including a direct descendant
00:35represented 36 tribes connected to the remains.
00:41This repatriation has great significance.
00:44It is a very important event for all the clans on the island.
00:47The island is divided in different areas, each belonging to a tribe, and from each of
00:52these areas human remains were taken away.
00:56Taken without consent and later sold to the museum during a German naval expedition in 1882.
01:02For the Rapa Nui people it's not only about returning their ancestors after 144 years, but it's also
01:09about confronting the legacy of colonial era museum collecting.
01:14I believe that we should be doing the right thing and there's no reason any museum in the
01:19world today should be keeping ancestral remains in their collection.
01:24The Australian Museum says this is its largest repatriation project, righting a wrong committed
01:31created more than a century ago.
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01:38the Buddhist
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