The remains of Rewa high chief, Ro Veidovi, returned to Fiji last Saturday, 186 years after his death in the United States.
Ro Veidovi was of chiefly lineage from the Roko Tui Dreketi family of Rewa.
He was reportedly arrested in Fiji by an American expedition team in 1840, and taken to the US where he died a day after his arrival.
According to written and oral accounts, he was wanted for the death of several American beche-de-mer traders who were killed on Ono Island, Kadavu in 1834.
Many years after his death his remains were moved and kept at the Smithsonian Museum at Washington DC.
