New Zealand brings home stolen, traded indigenous remains
Te Arikirangi Mamaku-Ironside, head of repatriation for Te Papa national museum, works to bring back indigenous remains to New Zealand. – AFP pic, June 19, 2023.
SNATCHED by grave robbers or traded by settlers as macabre curiosities, the remains of New Zealand’s Indigenous people are slowly being brought home after centuries overseas. After British explorer Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769, some European settlers developed a grim fascination with the remains of indigenous Maori people and Morioris, who are native to the Chatham Islands.
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