LEANNE BRAS HOLDS WHAT COULD BE AN ARROW MADE FROM CAPTAIN COOKS BONES IN SYDNEY, 2002-07-04...

Leanne Brass, Collection manager of the Anthropology division at the Australian Museum, holds what may be an arrow made from the bone fragments of the famous 17th-century English explorer Captain Cook in Sydney July 4, 2002. The bone fragment is lodged into the shaft of the arrow and was scanned at a Sydney hospital in May with the results proving it was indeed human. The President of the Captain Cook Society Cliff Thornton tracked the arrow down to the museum's collection, and wants a DNA test with Cook's living descendants to find a match. Captain James Cook was killed by islanders on an Hawaiian beach in 1779, and the arrow was given by King Kamehameha II of Hawaii to one of King George IV's personal doctors in 1823, then donated to Australia in the late 19th century. REUTERS/David Gray DG/JS