Ancestor wrongly identified as ‘Queen of the Walbiri’ returned to Northern Territory community

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Yuendumu celebrates as remains of Warlpiri man repatriated from Adelaide after more than 50 years

For decades, the ancestor’s remains sat in a box labelled “Queen of the Warlbiri” at Adelaide dental school.

In the 1960s, a pastoralist who found the remains at Pikilyi/Vaughan Springs, near Yuendumu in the central Australian desert, handed them to a missionary. That missionary then gave them to researchers from the University of Adelaide’s dental school.

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