Last updated: 10.02.2022 09:32
Delegates from Hawaii took over the bones in a ceremony at the University of Göttingen.
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Delegates from Hawaii visited the University of Göttingen on Wednesday and got back skulls and skeletons of their ancestors as part of the research project “Sensitive Provenances”. The bones come from the “Blumenbach Skull Collection” and the anthropological collection of the university. Now they are to be buried where they once came from. Scientists had identified the descendants. At the end of the 19th century, the Hamburg anatomist Thilenius had dug up and stolen the bones on the island of Maui. They then arrived in Göttingen in 1953, as the university says.
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VIDEO: University of Göttingen hands over Hawaiian bones to descendants (1 min)
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