Germany handed over to Colombia two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum’s collection for more than a century.
Columbian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva Duran, left, and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger look to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center right, and Columbian President Gustavo Petro, center left, as they shake hands after a ceremony to return two masks of the indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 16, 2023.
Petro welcomed the return of “these magic masks,” and said he hopes that “more and more pieces can be recovered.” He said at a later news conference with Germany's chancellor that the Kogi community will ultimately decide what happens with the masks. He added: "I would like a museum in Santa Marta, but that's my idea and we have to wait for their idea.”
Governments and museums in Europe and North America have increasingly sought to resolve ownership disputes over objects that were looted during colonial times.
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