Repatriation of Sacred Human Relics to Vanuatu

After an eight-year FBI investigation, five crates of human relics, including skulls and effigies, were repatriated to Vanuatu from New York. The items were stolen from a sacred men's house in a bush village and seized from the estate of a deceased New York collector. The return of the items posed a logistical challenge due to their fragility. The effigies hold great cultural and historical significance to the Vanuatu people.