After almost 200 years sitting in Switzerland museums, two sacred objects belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy have returned home from overseas.
The restitution ceremony took place on Feb. 7 at the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève . Due to the sacredness of the objects, they are in a closed box and cannot be photographed.
Deskaheh, a Cayuga chief, tried to lobby for international recognition of the Haudenosaunee as a sovereign nation but in 1923 was refused the right to address the assembly floor of the League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations. Before he returned to Canada, the mayor of Geneva invited him to give a speech in front of the people of the city.
"We've had hundreds if not thousands returned already but I know there's probably just as much still out there," said Brennen Ferguson, a member of the Tuscarora Nation and one of the other delegates. "It was pretty sad. It's like you're seeing a person that's been neglected," he said about seeing the mask.
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