Natural History Museum Vienna Returns Bones of Members of the Māori and Moriori to New Zealand

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Bones of members of the Māori and Moriori people were returned to Aotearoa, New Zealand, during a repatriation ceremony at the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

The Natural History Museum of Vienna returned bones of members of the Māori and Moriori to Aotearoa, New Zealand. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / [Public Domain]

The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Program is conducting the repatriation of Māori and Moriori remains from the collections of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. This project is conducted in partnership between the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (Wellington), the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM), the Austrian Federal Government, and the New Zealand Embassy in…