"Stolen' totem pole returned to Canada by Scottish museum - BBC News 01 hr ANA

After almost a century and a journey of thousands of miles, a
totem pole taken from Canada has returned home.
The Ni'isjoohl memorial pole has been in Scotland since it was
sold to the National Museum by Canadian anthropologist
Marius Barbeau in 1929.
However, researchers say it was stolen from the Nisga'a Nation
without consentconsent while locals were away from their villages for
the annual hunting season.
It is the first totem pole to be returned from a British museum
to an indigenous community - a potentially precedent-setting
moment in the broader move towards museum repatriation.
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