Skulls taken as trophies returned from Scotland to their ancestral home

The skulls belonged to four Taiwanese tribal warriors who were killed nearly 150 years ago.

The University of Edinburgh holds one of the largest and most historically significant collections of ancestral remains

Representatives of the University of Edinburgh took part in a traditional Paiwan service with the mayor of the Mudan Township before the handover to honour the spirits of the deceased warriors. It is understood the four Mudan warriors were unlikely to have been the perpetrators of the original incident.

The remains finally reached Edinburgh in 1907 after being handed over to the university’s principal, William Turner. Popular in the UK and other parts of Europe in the colonial era, phrenology formulated racist theories of inferiority based on the shape and dimensions of a skull.

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