A German museum just announced that it will return the mummified, tattooed heads of two Māori men to New Zealand. The heads, known as Toi Moko, were acquired over a century ago and have been at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin since 1879 and 1905.
The tattooed heads belonged to eminent Maori people and were acquired through trade with Europeans.
The return is part of the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Program, set up by New Zealand back in 2003 and organized by the Te Papa Tongarewa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, to bring back Māori and Moriori human remains to their rightful homes.
