{"id":46150,"date":"2022-07-08T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/ultimate-honour-remains-of-hundreds-of-moriori-returned-in-biggest-repatriation-yet"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:43:13","slug":"ultimate-honour-remains-of-hundreds-of-moriori-returned-in-biggest-repatriation-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46150","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ultimate honour\u2019: remains of hundreds of Moriori returned in biggest repatriation yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug up as curiosities by explorers<\/p>\n<p>The skeletal remains of more than 100 Moriori ancestors, the Indigenous people of R\u0113kohu \u2013 or the Chatham Islands \u2013 have been returned to the tribe from the UK, as part of the largest single repatriation of Moriori remains to date.<\/p>\n<p>The ancestral remains, or kar\u0101puna in Moriori dialect, were unceremoniously dug up by colonisers to be traded as curiosities and, for up to 100 years since, have sat in collections in London\u2019s Natural History Museum and across Aotearoa New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/ultimate-honour-remains-of-hundreds-of-moriori-returned-in-biggest-repatriation-yet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug up as curiosities by explorersThe skeletal remains of more than 100 Moriori ancestors, the Indigenous people of R\u0113kohu \u2013 or the Chatham Island&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,503,897,89,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-museums","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46151,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46150\/revisions\/46151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}