A burial site and headstone is located in the "Mission" area of Palm Island.
It tells the story of a young Palm Island man of the 19th Century called Kukamunburra who was renamed "Tambo" by a circus agent for the "Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson's Greatest show on earth".
After being kidnapped by United States circus agent R A Cunningham in 1883, he was toured along with eight other Murris, three of whom were from Hinchinbrook Island and five from Palm.

 In 1884, Kukamunburra died at 21 years old of pneumonia in Cleveland, United States.
The rest of the circus group carried on to the European leg of the tour; by the end of 1885 only three of the Murris were still alive.

Kukamunburra's body was embalmed; 109 years later, in 1993, the body was discovered in a local funeral parlour.
Anthropologist Roslyn Poignant was able to identify the body and his remains were returned to his homeland and buried on Palm Island in February 1994.
A burial site and headstone is located in the "Mission" area of Palm Island. It tells the story of a young Palm Island man of the 19th Century called Kukamunburra who was renamed "Tambo" by a circus agent for the "Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson's Greatest show on earth". After being kidnapped by United States circus agent R A Cunningham in 1883, he was toured along with eight other Murris, three of whom were from Hinchinbrook Island and five from Palm.
 In 1884, Kukamunburra died at 21 years old of pneumonia in Cleveland, United States. The rest of the circus group carried on to the European leg of the tour; by the end of 1885 only three of the Murris were still alive.
Kukamunburra's body was embalmed; 109 years later, in 1993, the body was discovered in a local funeral parlour. Anthropologist Roslyn Poignant was able to identify the body and his remains were returned to his homeland and buried on Palm Island in February 1994.
Great Palm Island