Yagan's Head
The head of Australian Aborigine warrior Yagan (c.1795-1833), after being kept in Liverpool Museum, was buried in a box also containing a Peruvian mummy and a Maori's head that had also been kept by the museum, in the cemetery in 1964. After lobbying of British and Australian governments by Noongar tribal representatives, the head was exhumed (despite a common grave of 22 infant children having been made over it in intervening years) in 1997 for repatriation and reburial in Belhus, Western Australia.
Read more about this topic: Everton Cemetery
Famous quotes containing the word head:
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are ... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)