![]() who accompanied his father on one of his expeditions to the island in 1955, when he was 17. The signing ceremony was also attended by Thor Heyerdahl Jr. Heyerdahl’s family said he had long wanted to return the pieces he collected in expeditions in the mid-1950s and mid-1980s, currently exhibited in the Oslo museum. He warned however that the repatriation process “will take time.” “Our common interest is that the objects are returned and, above all, delivered to a well-equipped museum,” said the museum’s director Martin Biehl. The museum pieces include carved artifacts and human bones from the Rapa-Nui, the first inhabitants of the remote Chilean island in the Pacific. SANTIAGO, Chile - Norway agreed on Thursday to hand back thousands of artifacts removed from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.Īn agreement was signed by representatives of Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum and officials of Chile’s culture ministry at a ceremony in Santiago as part of a state visit by Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja. ![]()
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