Easter Island, Kon-Tiki Museum

Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile’s remote Easter Island
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.
Kon-Tiki Museum launches return of excavated items to Easter Island
When Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl visited Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the 1950s, he conducted months of excavations that revealed thousands of items he was allowed to take back to Norway for further examination.
Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to take back the spirits of the remains.
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
Museo Kon-Tiki de Noruega devuelve piezas a la remota Isla de Pascua en Chile
Un museo de Oslo está devolviendo piezas arqueológicas y restos humanos tomados por un explorador y antropólogo noruego a finales de la década de 1940 al territorio remoto de la Isla de Pascua, en el Pacífico,
El Museo Kon Tiki, En Noruega, Devuelve Restos Humanos A La Isla De Pascua
El museo noruego Kon Tiki devolvió el miércoles a la Isla de Pascua restos humanos que el explorador Thor Heyerdahl había llevado a Noruega tras sus exploraciones a bordo del Kon Tiki en 1947.
Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artefacts to Easter Island
Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific. In 1947, the anthropologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days in order to prove his theory – that the South Sea Islands were settled by seafarers from South America.
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