Shrunken heads return to New Zealand

**Parihaka** · 11-15-2005, 17:57 PM

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Maori remains mount up at Te Papa
15 November 2005
By KENT ATKINSON

A powhiri will be held at Te Papa next Tuesday to welcome home 18 sets of Maori remains from museums in Britain and the Netherlands.

The arrival will leave the national museum holding more than 100 remains while ancestral homes are sought for them. DNA technology has not yet been developed to the point where modern-day descendents of the long-dead Maori can be located.

A Glasgow museum today handed back to a representative of the Museum of New Zealand the tattooed heads of three 19th century Maori, donated by Scottish collectors in 1906 and 1951.

Glasgow City Council last year agreed to hand them back to following a request from the National Museum of New Zealand.

The heads, which were never put on display in Glasgow, are being brought to Te Papa in Wellington, along with a leg bone which is thought to be from a Maori chief killed in an 18th century battle.

Te Papa's kaihautu or co-leader, Te Taru White, told NZPA the repatriation was part of a pro-active campaign by the museum to seek the return of remains from foreign museums. One of the heads being returned on Tuesday is from the Netherlands, where it was held in the National Museum of Ethnology

Ten sets of remains were sent back 10 weeks ago from three institutions in Australia.

AdvertisementAdvertisementBy the end of next week, Te Papa's whare tapu will hold more than 100 sets of remains, for which it will seek New Zealand origins so that they can go to those regions for burial.

Mr White said a lot of remains were still overseas, including some in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, 37 in New York, and a significant number in the British Museum.

"We will be making sensitive approaches to those institutions and working with them on the return of remains," he said.

Increasing numbers of Maori remains are being returned to New Zealand in the wake of a British law that has allowed nine leading museums and institutions to send back the remains to indigenous communities around the world.

A section of Britain's Human Tissue Act - announced in July - allows museums to return remains "which are reasonably believed to be under 1000 years in age".

Museums created by acts of parliament in the UK - such as the British Museum and the Natural History Museum - have until now been legally barred from disposing of items in their collections.

British Culture Minister David Lammy has described the law change as a "response to the claims of indigenous peoples...for the return of ancestral remains".

from here

Ray · 11-15-2005, 18:01 PM

Acutally they are being returned since Blair feels that there is some magic in those heads that has got his political head on the guillotine!

So send it back to where it belongs

Neo · 11-15-2005, 18:03 PM

Thats mean!

**Parihaka** · 11-15-2005, 18:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray

Acutally they are being returned since Blair feels that there is some magic in those heads that has got his political head on the guillotine!

So send it back to where it belongs

LOL

Ray · 11-15-2005, 18:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Neo

Thats mean!

Neo,

Inspite of all the stiff upper lip etc, the Britishers are real scared of voodoo!

And thanks for PMing me.

So this is the 10,000th post!

The first WAB member passed the post!

And Parihaka too gave me the opportunity to unwittingly get past the post!

Hey, I still remain a Senior Member!

These shrunken heads are causing a voodoo spell on me!

Neo · 11-15-2005, 18:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray

Neo,

Inspite of all the stiff upper lip etc, the Britishers are real scared of voodoo!

And thanks for PMing me.

So this is the 10,000th post!

The first WAB member passed the post!

And Parihaka too gave me the opportunity to unwittingly get past the post!

Hey, I still remain a Senior Member!

These shrunken heads are causing a voodoo spell on me!

CONGRADULATIONS SIR!

Neo · 11-15-2005, 18:21 PM

Please check the World Information Board Section!

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