Resources
Tools and references to support varied restitution processes
Restitution guide
A guide rooted in Rapa Nui for beginning, sustaining and supporting restitution processes from within local relationships and authority.
Open resourceRestitution request letter template
An adaptable structure for opening a conversation and making clear what is requested, who decides and what follows.
Open resourceDirectory of organisations
Organisations, networks and tools working on restitution, memory, languages and data sovereignty.
Open resourceParticipant map
A network of possible relationships, positions and conditions that may shape each process.
MoSA articles
Research, object histories and perspectives on displacement, restitution and museum practices.
- Base de datos de objetos rapa nui
- Conceptos rapa nui
- Cráneo humano: ivi tupuna
- Escultura en madera tahoŋa
- Escultura en madera, mujer con vulva alargada
- Figura de tapa / mahute
- Hoa Haka Nana Ia
- La tablilla Mamari
- Moai curvo
- Moai kava kava
- Otra forma de pensar los ancestros y artefactos robados
- Rau'oho (cabello humano)
- Rongo rongo: la escritura de Rapa Nui
Further reading
Selected guides, rights frameworks, cases and initiatives. Links open the publisher’s page or document.
- Practical guidesInternational Repatriation Guide
- Practical guidesRestitution and repatriation: a practical guide for museums in England
- Practical guidesGuidance for restitution and return from university museums and collections
- Practical guidesUNESCO Digital Library resource on restitution
- Rights and legal frameworksProtocol for Free, Prior and Informed Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
- Rights and legal frameworksUniversal Declaration of Human Rights
- Rights and legal frameworksUnited Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Cases and archivesReturn and restitution cases
- Cases and archivesGeographic archive of restitutions
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesFault Lines: imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections
Exhibition catalogue with a downloadable publication.
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesWe Want Them Back!
Campaign and publications on human remains from colonial contexts in Berlin.
Scientific report on human remains from colonial contexts in Berlin (English PDF)
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesNo Humboldt 21!
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesJoint Guidelines on cultural property and human remains from colonial contexts
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesCivil society: guidelines on colonial heritage are inadequate
- Campaigns and critical perspectivesDecolonial law and practice