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Article: Premier angry over alleged mummified Greenlander in Dutch museum
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- November 24, 1998
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11-24-1998
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) _ Greenland's premier said Tuesday he wants a Dutch museum to return an embalmed body believed to be a native Inuit.
The mummified body is on display at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, part of an exhibit called ``Bone by Bone.'' The body is part of an exhibit of remains on loan from museums throughout the Netherlands.
``It could be the great-grandfather of someone up here,'' Premier Jonathan Motzfeldt said on Denmark's TV2. Greenland is Danish territory.
The Danish Foreign Ministry said it was willing to run a DNA test on ...
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