It's telling that the British Museum doesn't address the elephant in the room: will they be returning the cloak to the Maori people?

If not, why not?

While it's laudible that they contribute conservation and reconstruction expertise to projects like this - they are well funded and this is in their mandate, after all - if the ultimate goal doesn't include a discussion of returning the cultural history to the people and places it was taken from, then this just more whitewashing of troubling colonial attitudes that continue to this day.