The Vatican is preparing to repatriate a collection of Indigenous artefacts, including an Inuit kayak, from its Anima Mundi museum to communities in Canada.
The Vatican is set to announce the repatriation of a “few dozen” Indigenous artefacts from its ethnographic collection to Indigenous communities in Canada, according to officials.
The items, which include a kayak used by Inuit communities, form part of the holdings of the Vatican Museums’ Anima Mundi collection and have become emblematic of the Church’s broader reckoning with its historical role in the suppression of Indigenous culture in the Americas.
