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 LONDON (AP) - A London museum handed over teeth, skulls and skeletons looted from Tasmania in the 19th century to Aboriginal rights campaigners on Friday after a 20-year struggle for their return.
Remains of 17 Aborigines have been held by the Natural History Museum since the 1940s but will be flown Saturday to Tasmania, an island 125 miles south of mainland Australia.
The fragments, the oldest of which dates back to 1839, will be buried in a ceremony next month, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center said.
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