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After six years of talks, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford handed over the ancestral remains of 39 Naga forefathers, mostly skulls and bones, to Nagaland on Tuesday. Community‑based organisations in Nagaland had spent six years working to repatriate the remains, which had been taken to the museum more than a century ago. The transfer marks the return of the remains from the UK to their home after a long period of effort.
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Guwahati: Six years of efforts by community-based organisations in Nagaland to repatriate the ancestral remains of 39 Naga forefathers paid off, with the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, finally handing them over on Tuesday. The remains, mostly skulls and bones, were taken to the museum more than a…
