Oxford University Museum to Return Human Remains to Naga People
Oxford University approved the return of 39 of 40 requested sets of Naga human remains, and the museum is arranging a handover ceremony.
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The ancestral remains were collected in the early 20th century and stored for decades in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum, which has the largest collection of Nagas objects in the world, will organize the return of these human remains collected in the early twentieth century by British colonial administrators in northeastern India.
Oxford University museum to return remains of 39 people taken during British colonial rule in India
The Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the world's leading institutions for anthropology, ethnology and archaeology, holds over 6,000 artifacts from the Naga community in India.
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CNBC-TV18Oxford University museum to return human remains to Naga people
Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum will return the remains of 39 people taken during Britain's colonial era to the Naga community in northeast India, the museum said on Monday.The museum, which holds the world's largest collection of Naga artefacts, confirmed it was preparing the repatriation after the university approved a restitution request by the Forum...
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