Four spears carved and used by the Gweagal people in Kamay (Botany Bay) were stolen by Captain James Cook and other English colonisers who came to Australia in 1770.
The spears ended up at Cambridge University in the UK.
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More than 250 years later, Cambridge returned the spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community in a formal ceremony. It featured traditionalrituals.
They are the earliest artefacts taken by the British from any part of Australia that still exists.
