For You Lot Data - Germany Returns Tattooed Maori Skull To Novel Zealand

H5N1 Maori skull acquired 110 years agone past times a museum manager inwards Cologne has been officially handed over to New Zealand on Tuesday.

The mummified Maori skull [Credit: picture-alliance/dpa/T. Kleinschmidt]

The tattooed skull was kept inwards Cologne's Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Wold Cultures afterwards existence bought past times a one-time manager from a London dealer inwards 1908.

Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker handed it over to a New Zealand museum delegation inwards a ceremony Tuesday afternoon, equally role of a 15-year system to repatriate indigenous articles to their master copy owners.

"The existent finish is to honour out to a greater extent than on the ground, as well as to set the skull," said Judith Glaser from the Rautenstrach-Joest Museum.

Looted artefacts from Berlin's Museum of Ethnology returned to Alaska
[Credit: picture-alliance/dpa/R. Hirschberger]

The skull volition hold upwardly kept at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa inwards the capital, Wellington, where it volition remain until its descendants tin flame hold upwardly found. It volition hence hold upwardly handed dorsum to the appropriate Maori tribe.

In May, Germany's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned artefacts inwards its collection to members of the Alaskan Chugach tribe which were looted inwards the belatedly 19th century.

The ix objects, which included broken masks, an idol as well as a cradle were role of Berlin's Ethnological Museum's collection as well as came into their possession inwards the 1880s via Norwegian explorer Johan Adrian Jacobsen.

Source: Deutsche Welle [June 27, 2018]


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