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A Swedish anthropologist, Eric Mjoberg, undertook to remove Aboriginal bones from the Kimberley region of Australia between 1910 and 1911. Initially only interested in collecting flora and fauna specimens for research, he soon became obsessed with the Aborigines. Mjoberg is believed to have bribed Aborigines to take him to the bones in sacred burial sites, where he then desecrated the sites by stealing the bones, and smuggled them out of the country by passing them off as kangaroo bones. In 1912 and 19131, Mjoberg returned to Australia, where he illegally procured some bones from Aboriginal sites near Urandangie in Queensland, Bermagui in NSW and Camperdown in Victoria. The skeletons - 18 boxes altogether, containing the bones of around 25 Aborigines - were held in Sweden's Museum of Ethnography and the National Museum of World Cultures. The bones have since been returned.
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