Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 5, 1 May 1994 — Last of iwi in main land museums come home [ARTICLE]

Last of iwi in main land museums come home

Atotal of approximately 283 Hawaiian remains from the collections of Harvard and Yale Universities in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., were returned to Hawai'i in early April, with funding assistance from the OHA Native Hawaiian Preservation Council. Members of Hui Mālama 1 Nā Kūpuna O Hawai'i Nei, accompanied by members of the Maui and Kaua'i island burial councils, went to the museum to bring home the iwi, whieh were prepared with kapa and lau hala for reburial on Maui, Kaua'i and O'ahu. Some of the remains have been been in the museum's collection for almost a eentury. The bones were collected between the 1800s and the 1950s by various collectors and donated to the universities. Their repatriation was conducted under provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.