Loaned Aboriginal Art Seized In Australia

Two pieces of Aboriginal art on loan from the British Museum have been seized in Australia. “Members of the Dja Dja Wurrung tribe secured an emergency order preventing the items being returned to the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens. The two bark etchings and a Aboriginal ceremonial headdress were on loan to Museum Victoria in Melbourne. Gary Murray, of the Dja Dja, accused the museums of ‘colonial arrogance’.”