Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee Retrieves Sacred Objects from Geneva
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Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG) director Carine Ayélé Durand and Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee member Kenneth Deer hold cornhusk dolls during the ceremony to repatriate a medicine mask and turtle rattle. The cornhusk dolls were gifted to the museum as something that can be displayed. Photo courtest of Chiara Cosenza/MEG.
by Kaniehtonkie
After almost two hundred years in a museum's possession, a medicine mask and a turtle rattle have been returned the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
A delegation from the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee travelled to Geneva,...
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