After a century in Oxford, remains of 39 Naga ancestors begin their journey home

The remains of 39 Nagas, mostly skulls taken during British colonial rule, were formally handed over to a Nagaland delegation at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Collected between the 1910s and 1940s, they will be brought to India and laid to rest at a shared memorial in Nagaland. The repatriation follows a Naga-led reconciliation process launched in 2020.