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Monday, May 9
May 9, 2011

The first of 16 Maori heads has been returned to New Zealand by French authorities. Such tattooed, mummified heads were sought by European collectors and explorers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. “This is a great step forward in a vital ethical debate over our museum collections, and above all over human remains that were […]

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