Ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak

A ceremony has been held to mark the return of a Māori kiwi feather cloak to New Zealand by a British museum.

The kahu kiwi was one of the farewell gifts presented by Māori leaders in 1900 to Dr George Cleghorn, a medical doctor who had been working in New Zealand.

It was loaned to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford by Cleghorn's widow in 1913.

The Homebound Project, a charity which funded the return, said the cloak was "crying to come home".