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A museum in Switzerland has returned two sacred objects that were taken without consent nearly two centuries ago from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy this month. The Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee asked the Geneva Museum of Ethnography (MEG) to return a mask and rattle that were displayed in the museum s Archive of Human Diversity exhibit.
After almost 200 years sitting in a Switzerland museum, two sacred objects belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were returned home earlier this month.
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