Hypothetical Institutional Repatriation Decision
Definition
An illustrative decision about acquisition history, consultation and lawful transfer. The named 2018 De Montfort/Ogoni account has not been substantiated and is not used as a historical or judicial precedent.
Related terms
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- UT’s donated skeletal collection, established 1981 and currently exceeding 2,500 individuals. It is linked to the ARF, opened at its present site...
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- Culturally Unidentifiable Remains
- A category used under earlier NAGPRA regulations. The 2024 regulations removed this category and revised affiliation and repatriation procedures; historical terminology must...
- Hamann-Todd Collection
- More than 3,000 human skeletons curated by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History under Case Western Reserve University’s legal control, primarily from...
- NAGPRA
- A 1990 US federal law governing specified Native American human remains and cultural items, with consultation, documentation and repatriation processes for covered...
- Population Affinity
- The preferred modern forensic-anthropological term for the relationship between an unidentified individual's skeletal morphology and a modern reference population. Replaces the older...
- Terry Collection
- A documented skeletal collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC), assembled from cadavers donated to Washington University's anatomy...
- UNDRIP
- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295, 2007), adopted by 143 states. Articles 11, 12, and 31 affirm indigenous...
- Willed-Body Donation
- The model in which individuals consent during their lifetime to the post-mortem use of their body for medical or forensic research. The...