A pakana "victory"! The 1985 repatriation of the Crowther collection: Zoe Rimmer with Rebe Taylor.
From the early twentieth century, Sir William Crowther illegally removed many pakana ancestors’ remains from their graves in putlina (Oyster Cover). Following a successful political campaign from the early 1980s, the pakana community successfully convinced Tasmania’s state government to legislate the collection’s return from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery to community and Country. In … Read more