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Radebeul (dpa / sn) - After years of investigation, a scalp from the Karl May Museum in Radebeul has been handed over to the US Consul General in Leipzig.
He accepted the controversial piece on Monday together with the cultural attaché of the US embassy, as the Saxon Ministry of Culture announced.
The board of trustees of the Karl May Foundation approved the return of the human remains.
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In 2014, Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan (USA) asked for the scalp to be published, which the collector and co-founder of the Karl May Museum in Radebeul, Patty Frank (1876-1959), claims to have acquired from a descendant of a Sioux chief.
How the scalp really got to Saxony, however, ultimately remained unclear.
In the past few years there had been extensive research on the origin.
"There was no evidence of an injustice or a colonial origin confirmed," said Volkmar Kunze, chairman of the Karl May Foundation.
The handover should serve the international understanding and a good togetherness with the Native Americans.
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