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Hawaii: NI museum to return more human remains
BBC News NI Education and Arts Correspondent
NMNINational Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) is to return further human remains to Hawaii.
Human remains and other sacred objects were previously repatriated by NMNI to Hawaii in 2022.
That came after NMNI had identified some items stolen from other countries or connected to the slave trade among its collections.
It has now located three additional ancestral human remains (iwi kūpuna) taken from Hawaii in 1840 and plans to return them.
National Museums Northern Ireland‘Elated’
Kamakana Ferreira, from the OHA, told BBC News NI that his organisation appreciates the museum’s commitment to locating and returning their ancestors.
He said they are “elated” that the other missing iwi kupuna have been found after the museum were unable to locate them in 2021.
“We look forward to returning to Northern Ireland in late April to retrieve our ancestors and laying them to rest upon our return to Hawaii,” he added.
‘Consent’
William Blair, from the National Museum Northern Ireland Director of Collections, (NMNI) said that the museum was “fully committed to the rightful repatriation of collections to source communities, to address historic wrongs and implement the decolonisation of collections.”
“We welcome the opportunity to work with and learn from partners such as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and Hui Iwi Kuamo’o to undertake this vital work and, as we do so, to build strong relationships based on ethics, respect and empathy.”
PacemakerHe said the remains and sacred objects had been taken from Hawaii in 1840 “without free, prior and informed consent from families.”
He also said that “given the 19th Century provenance of the iwi kῡpuna being brought to Belfast and the lack of professional collection management standards at the time,” they had been unable to locate three sets of remains in 2022.
“Through our ongoing processes of collections reviews and documentation projects, in alignment with formal professional standards, National Museums NI was able to locate the missing iwi kῡpuna in November 2024.”
“We immediately notified Kamakana Ferreira, Lead Compliance Specialist at OHA, as he was involved with the original claim.”
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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — The on-and-off eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano broke a record Monday with the number of periods it has produced fountains of lava since it began erupting in December 2024, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
Monday marked 48 fountaining episodes, setting the record for any one eruption on Kilauea, said Katie Mulliken, a geologist and spokesperson with the observatory.
Episodes are separated by periods during which little to no lava erupts. Since lava is coming from the same vents in a crater at Kilauea’s summit, it is the same overall eruption, Mulliken said in an email.
There are several notable aspects of the current eruption, she said, including how accessible it is for viewing by residents and tourists. An eruption during the 1980s, in which 47 lava fountaining episodes occurred over about 3 1/2 years, occurred in a more remote area, she said.
The ongoing eruption is also reshaping the topography at the summit, she said.
But the lava fountains also can impact neighboring communities with volcanic fragments and ash, known as tephra.
Kilauea, located on Hawaii Island, is one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
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