"In Maori speak, they will be able to 'sleep the sweet slumber.' Only when they are returned to New Zealand and reacquainted with their pito ; that's their umbilical cord, and their whenua ; that ...

The head will be first taken to London, where New Zealand officials are collecting other Maori heads that have been returned from collections in Germany, Sweden and Norway, before being flown to ...

Shrunken Maori heads head home. NEW Zealand has recovered 20 mummified Maori heads that were held in French museums for nearly two centuries.

Three 19th century Maori heads that were hidden away in a Glasgow museum for more than 50 years will be returned to their native New Zealand, the Glasgow City Council decided Thursday.

French lawmakers decided Tuesday to return 16 tattooed and mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, ending years of debate on what to do with the human remains acquired long ago ...

PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers decided Tuesday to return 16 tattooed and mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, ending years of debate on what to do with the human remains acquired long ago by Fre ...

Authorities in New Zealand received 20 ancestral heads of Maori people once held in museums Maori heads are covered up by a black fabric on January 23, 2012 at Quai Branly museum in Paris, during ...

PARIS – French lawmakers decided Tuesday to return 16 tattooed and mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, ending years of debate on what to do with the human remains acquired long ago by French ...

The French museum only wanted to do what was right: It offered to return a preserved, tattooed Maori head to New Zealand, an attempt to restore dignity to human remains that were long put on ...

Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural curiosity.

ROUEN, France — A French museum has returned the mummified and tattooed head of a Maori to New Zealand officials after spending 136 years in a Normandy museum, a belated gesture to… ...