{"id":2004725,"date":"2011-04-14T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2011\/04\/14\/1st-french-return-of-a-maori-head-to-new-zealand-at-the-rouen-museum\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:41:26","slug":"1st-french-return-of-a-maori-head-to-new-zealand-at-the-rouen-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2011\/04\/14\/1st-french-return-of-a-maori-head-to-new-zealand-at-the-rouen-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"1st French return of a Maori head to New Zealand at the Rouen Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Rouen on May 9, the Maori head from the Natural History Museum will be definitively handed over to its people in a traditional ceremony<br \/>\n. After more than five years of ethical, scientific, political and legal debate, this will be the first<br \/>\nMaori head to leave French territory and return to its ancestral homeland, New Zealand, where it will be buried in accordance with<br \/>\ncustomary rites. The other restitutions, of all the Maori heads held by French museums, will take place at the beginning of<br \/>\n2012.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_21369\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dessin-t%C3%AAte-maorie-5-copyright-Delphine-Zigoni-mus%C3%A9um-de-Rouen.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dessin-t%C3%AAte-maorie-5-copyright-Delphine-Zigoni-mus%C3%A9um-de-Rouen-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Maori head drawing 5 copyright Delphine Zigoni, mus\u00e9um de Rouen\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21369\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dessin \u00a9 Delphine Zigoni Mus\u00e9um de Rouen<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rouen on May 9, the Maori head from the Natural History Museum will be definitively handed over to its people in a traditional ceremony . After more than five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30094],"tags":[57069,57066,57068],"class_list":["post-2004725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-en","tag-maori","tag-new-zealand","tag-rouen-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}