Tại sự kiện Ghana, Bảo tàng Fowler trả lại những món đồ lấy từ Vương quốc Asante

Seven items taken from the Asante Kingdom in West Africa by British forces during a 19th-century conflict were returned to the Asante king in what is now Ghana on Monday by officials of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A.

The museum, which focuses on the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Indigenous (bản địa) Americas, had received the items in 1965 as part of the largest gift in its history, a collection of some 30,000 objects from a trust in the name of the benefactor (ân nhân), Sir Henry Wellcome, a British pharmaceutical entrepreneur (doanh nhân dược phẩm) and artifact collector (nhà sưu tập hiện vật).

The Sir Henry Wellcome Collection forms the core of the African and Pacific holdings at the museum, which was founded in 1963 as the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology.

On Monday, in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi, the Fowler’s director, Silvia Forni, and two other museum staff members delivered the objects, including gold jewelry, an elephant tail whisk and an ornamental (trang trí) chair, to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Asante king.

source: nytimes,