Vanuatu ancestral relics, trafficked as art to New York, return home

Servicemen attend a ceremony to repatriate five crates of sacred human relics, seized in New York by the FBI in 2016 from a deceased art collector, in Port Vila, Vanuatu Aug. 29, 2024

When a crate escorted by the FBI from New York was opened this week at the national museum of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, Kaitip Kami instantly recognized the statue inside.