A Solomon Islands official said the nation was keen to have the ancestral remains returned for proper burial.
The Queensland Museum is under pressure to identify and repatriate dozens of ancestral remains belonging to Pacific Island nations, after quietly keeping them in storage for decades.
“Solomon Islands is one of the key but Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea – we would have ancestral remains from those four countries,” he said.Director of the Solomon Islands National Museum Tony Heorake said officials had not been informed about the extent of what was being held in Queensland.“The Solomon Islands government is not fully aware of the human remains kept at the Queensland Museum,” he said.
“While many of these objects represent the remaining traces of our disappearing and or extinct cultures, their gradual or systematic repatriation would help revive, restore and restock our cultural treasures.Six months after questions were raised by Nine about the repatriation backlog, the Queensland Government awarded the museum $4.5 million to employ more staff to the program.Storage rooms at the Queensland Museum.
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