Four Aboriginal spears that were brought to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago have been repatriated to Australia in a ceremony at Trinity College in Cambridge. The artefacts ...

LONDON — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge ...

On balance, however, Westaway has singled out the most iconic Aboriginal symbol ... believed to have been killed with stone-tipped spears. “I don’t know if it was a continent-wide phenomenon ...

The formal handover of the spears was an emotional moment for those who’d campaigned for this day. Noeleen Timbery represents the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council. “It’s a very ...

The University of Aberdeen has repatriated a murdered Aboriginal man's remains, thought to have been obtained during a colonial conquest in Tasmania.

The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...

One of the most famous paintings in the First Fleet collection depicts an encounter between British colonialists and Aboriginal Australians, when the British Governor was wounded with a spear. In the ...