Lardil headdress to return to traditional owners after 50 year absence

Derek Barry
Updated June 25 2021 - 10:20am, first published 9:36am
Lardil dancers from Mornington Island at the Sydney Opera House in 1973. Photo credit: Alex Ozolins
Lardil dancers from Mornington Island at the Sydney Opera House in 1973. Photo credit: Alex Ozolins

There will be a ceremony by Lardil custodians next week to welcome the return of a much-travelled headdress after a 50-year absence from Australia.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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