“As part of the Museum’s ongoing repatriation program, a community report was commissioned at a later date with the purpose of returning this ancestor to country,” said Phil Gordon, who overseas the museum’s repatriation program, in a statement.
A recent forensic examination confirmed the skeleton is a European male.
It wasn’t until June 2009 that the museum conducted its own analysis, and determined the skeleton’s ancestry was “predominantly European”, advocate assisting Brooke Notley told the inquest on Thursday.
It was then returned to Glebe mortuary in 2013 and a fresh investigation…
