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Chile announced on Sunday that it would ask the British Museum in London to return the remains of a Milodón, a extinct mammal that lived in Patagonia about 10,000 years ago a common region in Chile and Argentina.
The Chilean Minister of National Property, Felipe Ward, will visit London in two weeks to meet with representatives of the British Museum, to whom he will ask for the return of the remains of the Milodon.
The idea is "to entertain conversations with the museum authorities in London for to be able to repatriate the remains of the Milodon, bones and skin in storage, not even on display Ward explained to the press.
The remains of the Milodonum were seized according to official data, he went to England in 1897 for research purposes but was never returned to Chile.
Milodon was a lazy ancestor who was about 2.5 m tall [1]. 9459004] and weighed about 3 tons. In 1896, in the region of Magallanes (about 3,500 km south of Santiago), German settlers discovered the remains of this mammal in a cave known today as "the cave of the Milodón", in the entrance of which is a sculpture representing the latter. animal.
During the trip to London, Ward will be accompanied by representatives of the Ma & # 39; u Henua community of Easter Island, located some 3,500 km from the Chilean territory, who advocate for the museum . Bbritanico restores the moai Hoa Hakananai & # 39; a.
To this end, the Chileans will propose to the museum a replica of the moai made of basalt stone, which the craftsmen of December will build on Easter Island.
The sculpture was stolen illegally in 1868 at Easter Island by the English ship "Topaz", under the command of Commander Richard Powell, who offered it as a gift to Queen Victoria.
The replica will be built. Base of a mold of a styrofoam and fiberglbad moai from the Bishop Museum of Hawaii, which supports the request of Easter Island to recover the original sculpture.
The original Moai measures 2.42 m, was built of basalt stone and weighs about 4 tons.
On his back, carved characters depict the cult of bird-man and other ceremonial aspects of the enigmatic past of the island. It is estimated that this moai was created between the year 1000 and the year 1600 of our time.
Chile will also ask the Kon Tiki Museum in Norway to retrieve a vast collection of historical pieces from Easter Island.
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