The newly created Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage has adopted the procedural rules for dealing with individual cases of disputed items, either related to Nazi loot or colonial loot.
The Natural History Museum is returning two skeletons and a skull of Kawésqar ancestors to Chile. The Pueblo Kawésqar Foundation did come to receive them. But Marcelo Miranda wonders whether this Foundation was authorised to do so.
Experts in Basel have found four plant collections belonging to the two naturalists Fritz and Paul Sarasin that were thought to be lost. Until now, scientists had assumed that these pocket herbaria were destroyed in Berlin during the Second World War.
Katharina Küng from canton Zurich had a headdress that she had received from her mother hanging on her wall for a long time. “We thought it was the padding of an old suit of armour,” Küng says. It wasn’t until a trip to Namibia that she realised – in the Swakopmund Genocide Museum – that it was a traditional Herero headdress.
