Stolen skulls returned after 133 years to the Island of Inishbofin
Descendants look at the coffin containing thirteen skulls that were stolen 133 years ago by British anthropologist Alfred Haddon and his assistant Andrew Dixon, before it is lowered into a freshly dug grave, as they make their final journey home after a decades long campaign by islanders to have the remains returned and reinterred to the site they were taken from, as a traditional funeral is held for them in St. Coleman's graveyard, in Inishbofin Island, County Galway, Ireland, July 16, 2023. The campaign was spearheaded by Marie Coyne, who runs the Inishbofin heritage museum, and who along with others petitioned the Trinity College Dublin's Colonial Legacies Review Working Group for the return of the skulls. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne