Hey, that's our stuff: Maasai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum

Title: Hey, that's our stuff: Maasai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum
Author: Yohann Koshy,
Media Outlet: The Guardian
Publish Date: December 4, 2018

“(…) Will the Maasai be able to facilitate the return of sacred objects? Van Broekhoven tells me over email that “in principle”, and provided they find funding, the museum is ready to “learn together how we might envision new ways of redress”. The words are carefully chosen. Nangiria, ever the diplomat, suggests an alternative solution in one of our conversations: inviting elders to perform a spiritual ceremony that will “disconnect” the objects from their cultural function, allowing the Maasai to actively donate them to the museum. The museum will wait to hear from the elders to “jointly decide” on the next steps in the partnership.”