LONDON.- London’s Natural History Museum has returned 19 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait Island community in the next step of a collaborative agreement. This is the second group of items to be returned to the Islands and follows the Museum’s announcement in March to begin discussions with community representatives regarding the return of 138 ancestral remains and their future care. The return of remains to Traditional Owners from the community was acknowledged in a ceremony at the Museum. The delegation of 8 Traditional Owners also presented the Museum with a letter expressing the community’s wish for the Museum to continue as guardians of some of the remaining poorly provenanced remains and hold them in trust. In May this year the Museum returned 3 ancestral remains following a landmark collaborative meeting with representatives from the TSI. The