“We know that Naga communities will be the ones who know best how to take care of these Naga remains, who might want them back. So that is why now we are reaching out, to see what kind of forms of redress we might find together.
This kind of current work is really part of a shift in more of the museums around the world, that’s happening where museums are very conscious that some of these objects were taken as part of a colonial legacy. They were part of a sort of very violent past, and to do that part of redress, of societal healing, is really what museums are spending a lot more time on, and thinking about how can we do this?”
Pitt Rivers Museum announces partnership with FNR & RRaD for the repatriation of Naga Ancestral Human Remains.
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