The city of Rouen pledged Thursday to find a way to return the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori man to New Zealand, despite opposition from France’s culture minister and a court ruling that the city lacks jurisdiction over the artifact.

New Zealand has for years sought the return of preserved Maori heads and other human remains, many of which were collected in the West and have been displayed in museum galleries.

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