Easter Island mayor concedes Moai statue might be better left in British Museum

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The mayor of the Chile's Easter Island territory conceded on Monday that the British Museum might be a better home for a massive native Polynesian statue taken by British seamen 150 years ago.

Pedro Edmunds Paoa said Easter Island had a "thousand" of its iconic statues, known as the Moai, "both buried, ignored and discarded" and lacked the means to maintain them.