BM officials now Claim the Need for an Easter Island Jolly on Taxpayer' Expense

Tarita Alarcon Rapu, Governor of Easter
Island outside the British Museum
on November 20, 2018.  Photo by
Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images.

Delegates From Easter Island have convinced British Museum authorities to travel to Rapa Nui soon, to continue the discussion over the Hoa Hakananai’a ownership. As 'Elginism' notes, that's a better treatment than the British Museum has ever given Greece over the Parthenon Marbles.

Naomi Rea, 'Delegates From Easter Island Meet With the Top Brass at the British Museum to Demand the Return of a Monumental Head Sculpture Museum authorities will travel to Rapa Nui to continue the discussion in the coming months' Artnet news November 20, 2018

Although the meeting did not result in a concrete resolution, British Museum authorities did accept an invitation from the delegation to continue the talks on Rapa Nui. [...] the most important outcome of this initial meeting, Ward said, was an invitation extended by the Rapa Nui people to British Museum authorities to visit the island and continue the talks there. “That was accepted on the spot by the museum authorities and we are happy with that,” Ward said following the meeting with top officials, including the museum’s director Hartwig Fischer and deputy director Jonathan Williams. The visit will be finalized in the coming months.