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by Prianka Srinivasan

'Race scientists' took human skulls from villages in Palau. Now, Indigenous Pacific Islanders want their ancestors back

There are 10 human skulls stored at a German university that McMichael Mutok Jr wants to bring home. 

The skulls were taken more than 100 years ago from villages in his country Palau, an archipelago in the north-west Pacific where Mr Mutok Jr works as a registrar.

They are kept in cardboard boxes in the University of Göttingen's anthropological department, each skull stamped with a number that corresponds to an index card.

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