A ceremony outside the South Australian Museum marked the return of the bones of nine people to the home state, while the bones of others will also be returned to New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.
Historically, body parts of Indigenous Australians were donated to scientists overseas for research purposes, and now these bones are slowly making their way back.
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Narungga-Kaurna Elder, Tauto Sansbury said the journey the bones have taken is a terrible thing to think about.
"I'd rather now think about what we're going to do with what we've brought back," he told SBS.
Uncertainty of exactly where these bones originated means that they cannot be reunited with their individual communities.
Instead, the South Australian Museum will act as caretaker until such time as the bones can make their final trip home.
