Similar organizations in the UK have called for the purchase of animal remains to be prohibited and for the collection of them to be returned to the areas they belong to. Human body parts can be legitimately stored in museums, private collections, and for sale in the UK. Following the controversy over the price of a Nagas skull from the 19th century at an Oxfordshire vintage store last year, the demand for human remains was raised. Eventually, the sales was postponed.
A considerable number of British museums and cultural institutions have historically held ancient remains, usually acquired through violence, in their archives. The House of Lords was informed on Thursday during a discussion on the subject that a people bones could fetch more than Rs 1 million. Real people bones are sold in goth shops as art or as jewelry. India exported over 60 000 skeletons annually for the education of medical students at its optimum. It was a profitable colonial trading course. India outlawed sales in 1985, according to narrower gaze Baroness Black of Strome.
According to Alok Kumar Kanungo, a professor of Naga society, the UK’s galleries and private collections house about 50, 000 Naga things.
Baroness Twycross, the state representative at the argument, characterized the items on sale online as “appalled.” More than 6, 000 people bones, including mummified systems, are housed in the British Museum only.
