Digital repatriation is the return of items of cultural heritage in a digital format to the communities from which they originated. The term originated from within anthropology, and typically referred to the creation of digital photographs of ethnographic material which would then be made available to members of the originating culture. The National Museum of the American Indian, (USA) and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa have been particularly active in biculturalco-curation of digital material.