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Abe Maddison

EXPLAINED: Ministers mark germany s return of indigenous artefacts | Rare Historical Photos

Annalena Baerbock with Kaurna man Lewis O'Brien during a cultural heritage items handover ceremony. (Michael Errey/AAP PHOTOS)

Four significant cultural heritage items sent to Germany in 1840 by two Lutheran missionaries have been handed back to the Kaurna people in South Australia by a German museum.

The 180-year-old-plus items, a kathawirri (sword), tantanaku (club or bark peeler), wirnta (spear) and wikatyi (net) were officially returned during a ceremony at Adelaide's Pirltawardli (Possum Park) - the location of the original exchange between Kaurna people and German missionaries.

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