Oxford museum makes 'historic' return of Naga human remains
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rtl.luOxford museum makes 'historic' return of Naga human remains
Almost 30 people from the community based in northeastern Nagaland, a mountainous state bordering Myanmar, travelled to Britain for the ceremony, which the museum's director, Laura Van Broekhoven, called a "historic moment". The handover at the Pitt Rivers Museum came as part of a broader trend among Western museums reassessing how they acquired exhibits from other cultures, particularly human remains, and in some cases returning them. The Pitt …
Nearly 30 members of the Naga community, from a mountain range bordering Burma, were in Oxford for the handing over of the remains of some 39 people - mostly skulls - an event described as "historic" by one of the tribal leaders, Thejao Vihienuo, as well as by the museum's director, Laura Van Broekhoven. The Pitt Rivers Museum - an ethnographic museum founded in the 19th century, where a host of objects often labeled by hand line up in tight row…
After six years of discussions, the Pitt Rivers Museum of Oxford handed over to a Nagaland delegation the remains of nearly forty people. The Naga hope... The article Oxford finally returns their ancestors to the Naga appeared first on The Singular.
On Monday, the Pitt Rivers Museum of Oxford University gave back ancestral human remains to a delegation from Nagaland, the state of northeastern India, an illustration of a movement pushing the ex-colonial powers to reconsider the acquisition of objects taken from other cultures. Nearly 30 members of the Naga community, native to a mountainous massif bordering Burma, were in Oxford for the handing over of the remains of some 39 people - mainly …
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