The Mummified Maori Head Returned Home

This documentary follows the return of a mummified Maori head, held for a hundred and fifty years in a French museum, to New Zealand's Te Papa Institute. It reveals how such heads ended up in European collections and what their repatriation means to the Maori people. Through the journey home it explores culture, colonialism and restitution. It is a moving watch on heritage and the righting of a historical wrong. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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