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"One skull is believed to belong to King Toera, the ruler of the once-powerful Sakalava kingdom on Madagascar's west coast. French colonial troops took the skulls during violent clashes in 1897 and brought them back to France as trophies. They were then kept in a Paris museum alongside hundreds of other human remains from the former French colony, an island country off the southeastern coast of Africa."
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