Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum returns 39 Naga remains
Almost 30 members of the community travelled from Nagaland in northeastern India for the handover, which the museum's director called a historic moment.
An Oxford University museum has returned the remains of 39 people to members of the Naga community, in a handover its director called a historic moment.
Almost 30 people from the community travelled from Nagaland, a mountainous state in northeastern India that borders Myanmar, to Britain for the ceremony at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Dawn reported. The remains were taken during British colonial rule in India, according to Dawn and the Bangkok Post, which carried a shorter account of the same handover datelined Oxford.
Laura Van Broekhoven, the museum's director, described the return as "historic", Dawn reported. The Pitt Rivers Museum is one of the University of Oxford's museums.
The reports did not say which Naga communities the 39 people belonged to, when the remains left India, under what circumstances they reached the museum, or what the institution intends to do with the rest of its holdings of human remains.
Dawn reported that the handover came during a wider trend among museums in the West reassessing how they acquired objects from other cultures, particularly human remains, and in some cases returning them. The report did not name the other museums or countries involved in such returns.
The handover was held on Monday, with the Naga visitors in Britain for the ceremony.
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