Oxford University Museum to Return Human Remains to Naga People
Oxford University approved the return of 39 of 40 requested sets of Naga human remains, and the museum is arranging a handover ceremony.
- On Monday, Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum announced it will return 39 Naga ancestral remains to India following a restitution request by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation .
- Colonial administrators John Henry Hutton and James Philip Mills gathered most remains between 1910 and 1940, with the Pitt Rivers Museum noting that 'remains and objects were frequently confiscated during punitive military expeditions.'
- In July, the university approved the return of 39 of 40 requested items, concluding that one specimen 'does not have a clear provenance as Naga.'
- The FNR described the process as a 'Naga-wide movement of healing and unification,' while the museum is 'working closely' with the community to arrange a handover ceremony.
- This agreement reflects a wider international movement to repatriate colonial-era remains, following similar returns by the University of Edinburgh and London's Horniman Museum in recent years.
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The University of Oxford agreed to return to India the remains of 39 people from the Naga community, who were removed from the country during the period of British colonial rule. The material is part of the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, an institution of anthropology, ethnology and archaeology linked to the British university. Harry and Meghan are 'surprised' with a letter that reaffirms the status of non-working members of royalty, says…
The ancestral remains were collected in the early 20th century and stored for decades in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum, which has the largest collection of Nagas objects in the world, will organize the return of these human remains collected in the early twentieth century by British colonial administrators in northeastern India.
Oxford Museum To Return 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains To Naga People
The museum, which holds the world's largest collection of Naga artefacts, confirmed it was preparing the repatriation after the university approved a restitution request by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR).
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