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On loan from the La Perouse Aboriginal community, Chau Chak Wing Museum, 2025. Please contact Chau Chak Wing Musuem for permissions. Content has been provided by the Gujaga Foundation on behalf of Dharawal people belonging to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community.

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Gweagal descendants David Johnson, Kirsty Beller and Clare Woolley from the Gujaga Foundation.

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Full titleThe image is on loan from the La Perouse Aboriginal community, Chau Chak Wing Museum, 2025. Photo by David JamesDateSep 2025DescriptionIn March 2023, Trinity College, the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Gujaga Foundation and the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council announced the permanent repatriation of the Gweagal Spears from the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to the La Perouse Aboriginal community. In 2024, they returned to Country, for good. these spears tell a story of resistance then and now: the story of the Gweagal Ancestors who bravely defended their homeland, and the story of their descendants who fought for many years to have them returned.Curated CollectionsThe Gweagal Fishing Spears

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Gweagal descendants David Johnson, Kirsty Beller and Clare Woolley from the Gujaga Foundation.