After almost 200 years sitting in Switzerland museums, two sacred objects belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy have returned home from overseas. A delegation from the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, last week to retrieve a medicine mask and turtle rattle from the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG). The museum held a public ceremony to hand over the mask and a turtle rattle on Feb. 7. "Sometimes I realize that museum professionals don't even know that some objects are sacred or sensitive," she said. 7-month processSwiss historian and politician Amédée-Pierre-Jules Pictet de Sergy donated the mask and a turtle rattle to the museum's predecessor in 1825.

Source: Daily Nation February 17, 2023 03:47 UTC