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 dignity to ...

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 ago by ...

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 ago by French museums seeking ...

Singing laments and incantations, tribal leaders yesterday reclaimed the tattooed, mummified head of a Maori warrior from France, more than a century after Europeans took the mystic relic away. At the ...

The preserved heads have been stored at Aberdeen University's Marischal Museum for more than a century. The Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, asked for the return of the heads so it could ...

PARISPARIS — France’s parliament is expected Tuesday to approve the return of tattooed, mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, wrapping up a years-long debate on what to do with the human remains ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German museum said Wednesday that it will return two mummified, tattooed Maori heads that were part of its collection for more than a century. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ...

PARIS – 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 ago by French museums ...