Based on provenance research into the ancestral remains, it is believed that Gordon Augustus Thomson, who travelled from Belfast to Hawaiʻi Island in 1840, had removed iwi kūpuna from burial caves and donated them to the Belfast museum in 1857. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

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Based on provenance research into the ancestral remains, it is believed that Gordon Augustus Thomson, who travelled from Belfast to Hawaiʻi Island in 1840, had removed iwi kūpuna from burial caves and donated them to the Belfast museum in 1857.

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/04/national-museums-ni-returns-more-items-to-hawai%CA%BBi/

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