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.
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