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The items on sale at Sotheby’s are crucial cultural treasures, the indigenous people of New Zealand say A Maori tribe in New Zealand has urged Sotheby’s to return historical artifacts that are currently up for auction. The collection of 18th and 19th century tribal relics includes amongst others a ‘patu onewa’ and ‘mere’ Maori clubs, leg bones of extinct moas and a golden huia beak brooch. Ngarimu Blair, deputy chair for the Auckland-based Maori sub-tribe Ngati Whatua Orakei, told The Guardian on Thursday that these are some of his people’s crucial cultural treasures, or ‘taonga’. “We have so very few of these tao

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