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 ...

PARIS – PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers decided Tuesday to return 16 tattooed and mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, ending years of debate on what to do with the human remains acquired long ...

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 ...

There is a new book featuring the grisly history of Maori trophy heads, or toi moko. Photo / Thinkstock A macabre international trade in severed heads intensified Maori inter-tribal warfare to ...

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 mummified and tattooed head of a Maori is being returned to New Zealand after 136 years in a French museum. Curators hope the gesture will restore dignity to the first of 16 such human heads ...

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 ...