National Army Museum says it has agreed to a formal request for two locks of hair of Tewodros IIA British museum has agreed to repatriate to Ethiopia two locks of hair taken from the head of the 19th-century emperor Tewodros II. The National Army Museum on Monday said it had agreed to a formal request for the return of objects “considered to be of cultural sensitivity to Ethiopian citizens”. The National Army Museum said the locks of Tewodros’s hair were given to it in 1959 by the family of an artist who painted the emperor on his deathbed. The museum regarded them as important to the collection “for their historical connection to a major and unique campaign fought by the British army in 1868 and were collected in good faith”. The Ethiopian government had called the display of the hair “inhumane”.

Source: Ethiopian News March 04, 2019 17:48 UTC