UK museum returns indigenous sunhat


Ting (centre) showing the Kenyah-Badeng sunhat.

THE Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, has returned a historic Kenyah-Badeng sunhat to Sarawak.

Sarawak Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Ministry in announcing this on social media described the return of this cultural artifact as “an act of restoring history, dignity and identity to the Kenyah-Badeng community”.

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