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The return of shrunken Maori heads - mokomokai - to New Zealand could soon be sped up following a recommendation to the British government... |
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| Maori Heads may Return Home (November 2003) |
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A committee of experts has called for Britain to change the law to enable museums to hand back body parts collected centuries ago in often barbarous circumstances. For many people the remains are just a number, but for Maori they hold special importance. The curator of the Maori collection at Auckland's War Memorial Museum wants the mokomokai brought home. "Human remains are part of the cycle of ancestors to papatuanuku, the earth mother, and while they are in museums we are interfering with that cycle, says Paul Tapsell... |
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