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Sweden sends back Maori remains [video 48 seconds]

Source: BBC (11-18-09)

Officials from two museums in Sweden have handed over the remains of five indigenous Maori people to their New Zealand counterparts.

The remains include one almost complete skeleton, a skull, and three other skeleton parts.

The ceremony was held at the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg.

Museums across Europe have been repatriating human remains taken from indigenous burial grounds during colonial times.

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