The Kamay spears come home to Dharawal land more than two centuries after James Cook took them

My great-grandmother would always talk ... about the spears and artefacts that were in England,' says Quaiden Williams Riley

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When Quaiden Williams Riley laid eyes on the spears of his ancestors, tens of thousands of kilometres away from his traditional lands, it was the start of a return home more than two centuries in the making.

My great-grandmother would always talk about it to my grandfather and his siblings, about the spears and artefacts that were in England and how they would eventually get them back," Riley said.

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