Naomi Appleby was selected for a 2019 Encounters Fellowship of the National Museum of Australia thanks to her project aiming to bring all Yawuru ancestors home and tell the important and challenging story of their removal.
Naomi Appleby is working on Yawuru’s repatriation project known as Wanggajarli Burugun – We are coming home.
A key component of this project is to develop the Gwarinman memorial area within Broome cemetery to repatriate Aboriginal people taken from Yawuru country.
So far 30 people, including Gwarinman whose engraved skull is in the Natural History Museum, London.
The project has also identified 14 people from the Saxony Ethnographic Collections (SEC) in Germany.
The repatriation project which aims to bring all Yawuru ancestors home and tell the important and challenging story of their removal will require sensitive interpretation and negotiation with community, institutions and the Australian Government.
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