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Curators are re-examining a collection of hundreds of Samoan artefacts stored at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in the United States.

Dr Ingrid Ahlgren, Curator of Oceania from the museum, has been in Samoa to speak with communities about how to ethically oversee the collections.

She said that included calls to return the artefacts to Samoa.

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