Historic bones returned
19/Nov/2009
Two recent stories about the return of historic material:Ritual as Maori bones return home
An ancient ritual was performed during a ceremony in a museum before the skeletal remains of 12 Maoris began their return from Wales to New Zealand.
The skeleton of a female and bones of 11 other people were part of the Welsh national collection at National Museum Cardiff.
But they are being repatriated after recent research showed features consistent with Polynesian ancestry.
Source and full story: BBC News
Sweden returns skulls to Hawaii
Sweden has returned 22 skulls taken from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii in the 19th Century, in a solemn ceremony at Stockholm's antiquities museum.
Museum director Lars Amreus said he hoped it would "fulfil the spiritual circle" of those whose graves had been violated by Swedish scientists.
Source and full story: BBC News(Tags: anthropology, burial related, history)