Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate following Oxford museum agrees to return remains

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Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum is expected to return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east India Anthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that human remains belonging to their ancestors that had been on display in a British museum for nearly a century are finally being returned. The report also notes that On Monday, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford announced that 39 pieces of human remains – including parts of skulls, a finger and a piece of skin with hair – belonging to the Naga tribes, is expected to be returned to Nagaland following six years of negotiation between the community and the museum.

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