STOCKHOLM � Sweden is returning 22 skulls taken from a native Hawaiian community at a solemn ceremony at Stockholm�s Museum of National Antiquities.

Museum spokeswoman Ulrika Mannberg says Saturday�s hand-over will be attended by around 30 special guests, including representatives of the Group Caring for Ancestors of Hawaii and the Nordic countries� own indigenous Sami population.
Five skulls are being returned by the museum, to which they were donated in 1997. They were brought to Sweden by a Swedish scientist in the 1880s after he took part in a trip around the world. They are believed to have been taken from a Hawaiian burial cave.
The other 17 skulls are being returned by Stockholm�s medical university Karolinska Institutet.