Museum shouldn't test Aboriginal remains

Museum shouldn't test Aboriginal remains: Putt. : "'These are the ancestors, the relatives of people who are alive now in Tasmania who deserve much better consideration than they've go so far.'"

I thought the world had come a long way in getting the right things in the right place when it came to art and artefacts. Tribal things are meaningless out of context and have nothing to say to someone who simply has no idea of their significance. Ancestors are something totally different. They were people and belonged to people. It is very disrespectful not to treat them with the utmost consideration. That they are being returned is a massive step forward because they can be in the land of their own people. Testing them is unthinkable because it is treating them as objects. Perhaps tribal elders could advise this museum more carefully about what this actually means. Perhaps the museum could make contact with tribal elders and initiate a dialogue. With aborigines , you go to their home and you speak with them. It's about doing the right thing.