After more than a century, cultural artifacts from Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are being returned to their home islands.
A ceremony was held in Guam this past week to mark the event, and two months ago, HPR was there when Bishop Museum held a ceremony to announce that it had agreed in good faith to return some 10,000 artifacts.
The items in its collection over the decades included iwi, or full skeletal remains, as well as pottery shards. HawaiĘ»i quietly returned the iwi earlier…