An unknown British anthropologist had clipped the hair nearly a century ago from the head of a young Australian Aborigine and taken it to England, where it remained in three successive Cambridge University museums. It is considered to be almost completely uncontaminated with DNA from any other ethnic populations, ancient or modern.
But modern descendants of ancient people are highly sensitive about their heritage, and Willerslev and his team decided they needed permission from descendants of the man who provided the lock.
Willerslev, of the University of Copenhagen and leader of the research team, traveled to the remote gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie in southwestern Australia, where the hair had originally been taken, and explained his mission to the directors of the Goldfields Land and Sea Council, representatives of the region's aboriginal people who term themselves the Traditional Owners of the Goldfields Region.
Permission was granted, and the work began.
Source : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/22/MNAC1L89G9.DTL
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