Egypt
New Zealand Herald (Brian Rudiman)
- Addressing The Call For Objects To Be Repatriated
The Daily Mail, Islamabad You will need to scroll down to the second story on the page. HEADS are in the news this week. China has demanded the return of two 18th century bronze animal heads that belonged to the late French fashion designer Yves Saint...
- Exhibition: Egypt - Beyond The Tomb Going To Auckland
The exhibition is on its travels again, opening this week in Auckland Museum (New Zealand, North Island): http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0705/S00100.htm "This extraordinary international touring exhibition follows the story of Keku, an Egyptian woman...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....
- The Courtiers Of Khufu And Khafra
These 30 odd Old Kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...
Egypt
Taking but not giving in New Zealand
New Zealand Herald (Brian Rudiman)
Over the past decade, Te Papa's headhunters have been steadily working their way through a list of 120 institutions - mainly European museums - seeking the repatriation of toi moko.
They are the mummified heads that flowed out of New Zealand as ghoulish souvenirs in the early 19th century.
In recent days they've been celebrating the success of their latest sweep through Europe, resulting in the return of heads and other Maori human remains from Rouen in France, Norway, Sweden and Germany.
The hypocrisy is, these retrieved relics will be brought back to the Wellington waterfront national museum to share basement space with lonely Lady Mehit, the trophy of an equally ghoulish trade in human exotica.
She's an Egyptian mummy, stolen from her 2300-year-old burial site at the Temple of Min's cemetery in Akhmim about the same time as the Maori heads went on the market.
- Addressing The Call For Objects To Be Repatriated
The Daily Mail, Islamabad You will need to scroll down to the second story on the page. HEADS are in the news this week. China has demanded the return of two 18th century bronze animal heads that belonged to the late French fashion designer Yves Saint...
- Exhibition: Egypt - Beyond The Tomb Going To Auckland
The exhibition is on its travels again, opening this week in Auckland Museum (New Zealand, North Island): http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0705/S00100.htm "This extraordinary international touring exhibition follows the story of Keku, an Egyptian woman...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....
- The Courtiers Of Khufu And Khafra
These 30 odd Old Kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...