British Museum Stolen Goods Tour
British Museum, London. Sat 4 May 2019
The Gweagal shield with a hole thought to have been made by a musket
ball fired by one of Captain Cook's men at Botany Bay
Indigenous Australian campaigner Rodney Kelly holds a didgeridoo and
stands beside the Gweagal shield
One of his ancestors held the shield and was wounded when Cook first
landed in Australia
The BP or not BP banner - Stolen Land - Stolen Culture - Stolen Climate
Danny Chivers explains why BP or not BP want an end to the sponsorship
of the British Museum by BP , and
for various stolen and looted artefacts to be returned
One of BP or not BP plays a BP executive and explains why sponsoring
the BM is a cheap way of covering up their cimate crimes
Rodney Kelly plays a long note on his didgeridoo (also known by many
other names including Yirdaki)
and points at his ancestor's shield, explaining its significance and
how it could play an important role
in a renaissance of aboriginal cultures in their native land.
The audience sat tightly packed listening to his talk and applauded
long and loud
Samir Eskanda speaks about many objects taken from 'biblical' excavations
in Palestine which are
important to understanding the culture and history of Palestine and
the Middle East and should be returned to museums there
BP or not BP hand out leafelts and direct people to the free Stolen
Goods tour.
The tour moves off, following the signs
to the Assyrian galeries
where Yasmin Younis speaks on recent looting from Iraq
The tour moves on
to the Parthenon Marbles
signed over to Lord Elgin by Turkish occupiers of the country rather
than the Greeks to whom they belong
and should be returned.
The fragments here should be back at least close to the site they
were made for, and the BM could display
some replicas of the best preserved pieces. perhaps as a part of a
virtual reality Parthenon..
The Rosetta Stone, captured by the British from the French in the Napoleonic
Wars, surely belongs in Egypt.
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