In early October, The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, listed several lots of human remains for sale, including skulls from west Africa and shrunken heads from South America.
They were withdrawn within a couple of days after objections were raised by representatives of the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford and indigenous activists.
The Pitt Rivers Museum specialises in archaeology and anthropology and has been returning similar items from its own collection as part of a wider decolonisation process.
