Maori heads returned after French senator's fight

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 6:24p.m.

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Twenty Maori heads taken from New Zealand more than 200 years ago are finally on their way home after an emotional ceremony in Paris.

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25 Jan 2012 03:24p.m.

Neil wrote:

Agree with the comments above - and as an aside is New Zealand now going to return its collection of Egyptian bodies to their correct resting places back home? If we take this returning bodies to their rightful resting place to the "logical" conclusion we should be getting the remains back of the real warriors of our past - all the enlisted men who's bodies are burying all over Europe.

25 Jan 2012 02:22a.m.

Grant wrote:

"Toi Moko cannot be filmed because of their sacred nature" Can someone please explain how the heads of mostly slaves, tattooed and killed for profit can now be sacred. They were not sacred when they were sold and traded. Surely the recording of images of the remains of the people subjected to such an atrocity would honour their memory. Where any of those people who attended the return of the heads from tribes that engaged in the practice of tattooing and killing slaves? I would be greatly concerned if the restriction on filmiming is an attempt to coverup which tribes commited these atocities.

24 Jan 2012 09:40p.m.

Phil wrote:

Cannot be filmed? What superstitious poppycock. There is no place for primitive beliefs in the 21st century.

24 Jan 2012 08:09p.m.

Craig wrote:

"forensic scientists may soon examine them to reveal the stories of their past." This is just a lie they will go into storage at Tory Street no researcher, academic or historian will ever see them let alone study them. Nice free trip for all the hangers on in the maori dept at Te Papa. The only dept with no publishing record.