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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2006 
Mexico to Demand Headdress
 Newswire
| | Replica of the Headdress of Moctezuma at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. |
Mexico will again ask Austria to return a traditional headdress worn by Aztec Emperor Moctezuma that is being kept by the ethnographic museum in Vienna, a National Action Party (PAN) deputy said Tuesday.
President Vicente Fox first issued a demand in May, but at the time, the petition was backed only by indigenous groups.
"Now he has in his hands a formal request approved by the Chamber of Deputies, which asks the Austrian government and parliament to return this artifact to the people of Mexico," said deputy Ernesto Herrera Tovar.
Historians say Emperor Moctezuma gave the headdress to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. It ended up in Austria at the end of the 16th century. |
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