Maaso Koba, The return

On Friday, June 3rd 2022, during a ceremony at the Mexican Embassy in Stockholm, the Swedish State Museums of World Culture returned 24 ceremonial objects to the Yaqui Nation. A story that began in Tlaxcala in 1934, when the collection was taken out of its time and place, until its restitution to the Yaqui people and the recovery of their soul.

 

3 Episodes Documentary Miniserie

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Episode 1: Restitution (2022)

The collection of objects that arrived in Sweden from Tlaxcala was returned nearly 100 years later. Why was that decision made? How is that process implemented? Is restitution always the correct decision?

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Episode 2: Yaquis in Sweden (2019)

A Yaqui delegation brought the objects, which were once forgotten in Sweden, back to life. They transformed them once again into items of music, dance, and celebration. The Yaqui Week in Gothenburg.

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Episode 3: Tlaxcala (1934)

The Yaqui people were forced to leave their homes during the end of the so-called Yaqui War. The story of their deportation to Tlaxcala. Yaqui music, the significance of the collection, and the expedition members who took the objects to a museum in Sweden.

Supported by the swedish National Museums of World Culture, Swedish National Heritage Board and INAH (Instituto Nacional de Antrolpología e Historia de México). Copyright: Sergio Joselovsky and Talía Murillo Monroy. All rights reserved. Credits at the end of each movie.