London - Three preserved 19th century Maori heads that were hidden away in a Glasgow Museum for more than 50 years are being returned to their native New Zealand. Glasgow Council voted unanimously ...

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 restore ...

Others worry they may open themselves up to claims for the return of artifacts from ancient Rome and Egypt if they set a precedent with the Maori heads. Even the Maori Te Papa Museum of New ...

The mummified tattooed heads of two Maori men that have been in Berlin’s ethnographic collection for more than a century are to be returned to the Te Papa Tongarewa museum in Wellington ...

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.

The heads, tattooed with traditional designs or moko, are revered as ancestral remains by Maori, who hold it an insult that they should be on display in overseas museums. On their return to New ...

A French court stepped in on Wednesday to block the return to New Zealand of the mummified head of a Maori warrior held in a provincial museum since the 19th century. The mayor of Rouen offered to ...

He was the seventh ruler of the Kiingitanga movement, which was created to unite the Indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand against British colonial rule in 1858. The king is considered the head ...