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Father Daniel Stephen (2ndL) looks on next to Yessie Mosby (L), both representatives of the Ugaram Le of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, during a commemoration ceremony for the restitution of ancestral, human remains from the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) collection to Australia, in Berlin, Germany on December 5, 2024. The memorial service for the human remains was organised by the Ethnological Museum Berlin together with the Australian Embassy. Three ancestors were added to the museum's collection in 1880. Two ancestors who had previously been kept in the Oldenburg State Museum of Nature and Man were also returned as part of the ceremony. The Australian government had been in contact with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) for several years regarding human remains from the collections of the Ethnological Museum. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP) (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images)