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.
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