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A REPATRIATION HANDBOOK a Guide to Repatriating Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains A REPATRIATION HANDBOOK A guide to repatriating Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains Dr Michael Pickering Senior Repatriation Advisor, National Museum of Australia For more detailed information and advice on the repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains, visit the ‘Return, Reconcile, Renew’ website: www.returnreconcilerenew.info © National Museum of Australia 2020 Typeset in Nimbus Sans Novus This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the A catalogue record for this book is available from the National purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as Library of Australia. permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent Creator: Pickering, Michael, 22 June 1957 – author amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by Title: A repatriation handbook: a guide to repatriating any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral or otherwise without prior written permission. Every attempt Remains / Michael Pickering has been made to contact artists and copyright holders for Edition: 1st edition permission to reproduce their work in this book. Enquiries are to be made to the National Museum of Australia. ISBN: 978-1-921953-41-5 (PDF) First published 2020 Dewey Number: 930.1 by National Museum of Australia Press Cover image: Coat of Arms (back), 1963, Narritjin Maymuru, GPO Box 1901 Maŋgalili, bark, 48.5 x 18.5 cm, collected at Yirrkala, Canberra ACT 2601 National Museum of Australia Telephone +61 2 6208 5000 Caution: readers should be aware that this publication nma.gov.au contains the names and images of deceased people. Publisher’s editor: Robert Nichols Design, typesetting and production: Kylie Smith Copyright and image delivery: Denis French, Hermini Rohmursanto Table of contents How to use this guide 7 Introduction 8 Glossary 10 Chapter 1 What is repatriation? 13 Why repatriate? 13 Return of authority and responsibility 14 Respectful management 15 Successful repatriation 15 Chapter 2 The historical context of collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains 17 Why were Ancestral Remains taken? 17 How were Ancestral Remains removed, and from where? 18 The rise of the ‘reburial’ movement 18 Arguments for and against repatriation 19 Changing ideas and practices in museums and professional organisations 20 Chapter 3 Conventions, policies, laws and professional codes 24 What types of legislation and policies are relevant? 25 — Domestic 25 — National, state and territory legislation and links 25 — International 27 Chapter 4 What to expect and how to prepare 29 Establishing your approach 29 Who are appropriate representatives? 30 Community leadership, consultation and governance: ‘right people, right way’ 30 Confronting histories: emotional, cultural and spiritual challenges 31 Keeping Places, Cultural Centres and Final Resting Places 32 Museums as Keeping Places 34 The Final Resting Place: burial, reburial and other options 35 Logistics and funding: fnancial cost and workload 36 Keeping records: information management techniques 38 Community reports 39 Occupational health and safety issues 39 3 A REPATRIATION HANDBOOK: A guide to repatriating Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains Chapter 5 Museum groundwork 42 Ancestral Remains in museum care 42 Establishing your approach 42 Museum governance and decision-making 43 Development of museum policies 43 Past requests 44 Documentation 45 Recordkeeping 45 Reporting 46 Responsibilities and accountability in repatriation 46 Legal access 47 Freedom of Information 47 Media 47 Chapter 6 Locating Ancestral Remains in domestic or overseas institutions 50 Community initiatives 50 What does the community already know? 50 Follow the collector 51 Using the web 52 Enlisting the help of others 52 Chapter 7 Museum-initiated repatriation: appreciating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander systems of afliation 55 Who is an Indigenous custodian? 55 Custodians 56 Identifcation of custodians 58 Why does a museum need this information? 59 Chapter 8 Community-initiated repatriation: locating and provenancing Ancestral Remains 61 Locating Ancestral Remains 61 The archives: missing Ancestral Remains, lost collections and museum exchange programs 62 What is provenance and why is it important? 62 What resources are available to establish provenance: compiling evidence 63 Archival research 64 How did the removal of Ancestral Remains and their original shipment overseas occur, and what paper trail might this produce? 65 Removal of remains by anthropologists and archaeologists 66 Distributions, bias and the historical ages of Ancestral Remains 67 Archaeological evidence of mortuary practices 67 Ethnographic evidence of mortuary practices 68 Old terms for language groups and clans 68 What about Ancestral Remains where archival information is poor or non-existent? 68 Scientifc techniques 69 — Revealing faded writing 69 — Metric analysis (craniometrics) 70 — Isotopic analysis 70 — Genetic (DNA) analysis 71 4 Chapter 9 Pursuing repatriation 74 Community initiatives 74 How to build a claim: key elements 74 Be aware of museum policies, protocols and practices 75 Establish the history of museum responses: seek advice from others who have gone before you 76 Domestic requests 76 International requests 77 Museum governance 77 Chapter 10 Dialogue and communication: community and museum conversations 80 The need to communicate clearly 80 Building relationships 80 Individual museum protocols 81 Museum policy, national policy 81 The role of Australian museums 82 The role of Australian government agencies 82 Museum rights 82 Chapter 11 The physical return of Ancestral Remains 85 Packing of Ancestral Remains for repatriation 85 Who should travel to collect Ancestral Remains? 85 Handover ceremonies 86 Preparing international transport: customs regulations and logistics 86 Preparing domestic transport: customs regulations and logistics 87 Information management after repatriation: communities 87 Information management after repatriation: museums 88 Chapter 12 Keeping Places, Final Resting Places and looking after sites 90 Community experiences of repatriation 90 Keeping Places prior to Final Resting Place 91 Security 91 Occupational health and safety 91 Mental distress 92 Pest management 92 Options for the Final Resting Place 92 Negotiation with landholders 93 Final Resting Place 94 The role of ranger groups 94 Memorials 94 5 A REPATRIATION HANDBOOK: A guide to repatriating Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains Chapter 13 Issues associated with repatriation 96 Confict between heritage laws and traditional laws 96 Consultants 96 Display of Ancestral Remains 97 Disputes 97 Return as empowerment: frivolous or vexatious claims 98 Challenges 98 Resources 100 Return, Reconcile, Renew Project: further information 100 Useful contacts 100 Federal, state and territory legislation 102 Archival resources 103 Museum policies 103 Human anatomy guides 104 Packing Ancestral Remains 104 Transport 104 Importing Ancestral Remains 104 DNA testing 104 Further reading 105 Acknowledgements 106 Endnotes 107 Repatriation ofcer’s notes 110 6 How to use this guide How to use this guide This handbook is primarily intended for those people active in the repatriation of Ancestral Remains to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities — in particular, those who are newly engaged in such processes. To aid this aim, it is written in a format intended to allow the user to identify and look up certain topics or issues without having to read the handbook cover- to-cover each time. It looks at repatriation of Ancestral Remains from both the museum side and the community side. The practice of repatriation is developing rapidly. New information and improved processes develop with each meeting between claimants and collection managers, and with each repatriation project. This handbook is therefore just a starting point for repatriation practice. The suggestions it makes are a guide only, and not mandatory. Users are encouraged to make notes regarding their own processes and to develop and edit the processes provided in this handbook to suit their particular situations. New developments and processes will inform updated future versions of this handbook, or used in new guides produced by others.1 More detailed information on many of the topics raised in the handbook may be found at the ‘Return, Reconcile, Renew’ website at www.returnreconcilerenew.info. 7 A REPATRIATION HANDBOOK: A guide to repatriating Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains Introduction The handbook is intended to assist with pursuing the return of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander human Ancestral Remains. It is hoped it will be useful to anyone who may become involved in repatriation, including staf within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community organisations, community museums, heritage agencies, universities, and relevant local, state and national governments. It is also hoped this handbook will inform and assist international governments and collecting institutions seeking to return Ancestral Remains to Australia. The guide is mainly based upon Australian experiences; however, it will inform Australian institutions and individuals involved in repatriation about how to approach overseas institutions and brief international institutions about how Australian
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