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HONOLULU (AP) - The remains of a Tongan princess are being returned to the South Pacific nation after being kept for 85 years at Hawaii's natural history museum.
Princess Fatafehi was part of a royal dynasty that ruled Tonga more than 600 years ago. A delegation of Tongan officials on Friday escorted her remains and the remains of about 20 other individuals back to the island nation.
Betty Kam, the museum's vice president of cultural collections, said the museum has repatriated hundreds of native Hawaiian remains but this is the first time it has done so for Tongans.
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