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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has officially returned cultural artefacts to the Kaurna Aboriginal tribe during her visit to Australia. The items in question are a wooden sword, a spear, a fishing net and a club, all of which were sent to Germany by two missionaries in the 19th century and were last on display in Leipzig’s Gassi Museum of Ethnology. “Each of these items holds countless stories. Stories of how the Kaurna people lived over 150 years ago,” Baerbock said at the handover ceremony in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. She said she wanted to honour the Kaurna’s spir…

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