Oxford museum returns ancestral Naga skulls to India

The Pitt Rivers Museum holds more than 6,000 objects associated with Naga culture, believed to be the largest such collection in the world. Most were acquired during British colonial rule in India and Myanmar (the former Burma).

The museum's website lists 219 items as human remains.

These were added to the museum's collection between 1910 and 1940 and mostly collected by two colonial administrators who were anthropologists.

The museum's website, external mentions that the objects collected during this period were "frequently confiscated during punitive military expeditions, rather than freely given".

During their visit to Oxford, the Naga delegation also met descendants of one of the anthropologists involved in collecting the remains.