Return of ancestors’ remains forms the bare bones of restitution

This is a story about the poignant moment when two people stared into facially reconstructed pictures of their ancestors, who died in the late 1800s and whose bones were unethically handed over to UCT in the 1920s.

But it is also a first-of-a-kind restitution story, which began in 2017.

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