Maori and Moriori remains return home

After more than a century, the remains of an estimated 64 Maori and Moriori -- many of them stolen by a notorious Austrian grave robber -- have been welcomed home by their descendants in Aotearoa. Yesterday's powhiri at our national museum, Te Papa, was the result of 77 years of appeals and negotiations with authorities in Austria, where they had been held at Vienna's Natural History Museum. Records show that 49 of the ancestors were stolen by Austrian taxidermist and grave robber Andreas Reischek, who spent 12 years in New Zealand from 1877. But he wasn't the only one responsible ... it's estimated that the remains of some 64 people finally made it home yesterday. The head of international collections at Vienna's Natural History Museum, Professor Sabine Eggers, explains how the remains ended up on the other side of the world. Nick Truebridge asked Te Papa's acting head of repatriation, Te Arikirangi Mamaku-Ironside, to explain why it took so long for the remains to come home.