Although the Naga ancestral remains at the Pitt Rivers Museum were taken more than a century ago, Dr. Ellen Konyak Jamir, coordinator of Recover, Restore, and Decolonise (RRaD), said that despite not knowing any of the ancestors, they felt an instant connection because of the village names written there and felt the “responsibility” to bring them back.

She was responding to a question on the Naga tradition of respect for the dead and its influence on repatriation during the Morung Lecture XXII series, organized in partnership with the Research and Development Cell, Fazl Ali College, Mokokchung, on September 20.

The Q&A session also featured Kaini Lokho, assistant professor of political science at Asufii Christian Institute, Mao; Dr. B. Henshet Phom, vice principal of Yingli College, Long

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