A kayak and gloves are among the items being sent back to Canada after 100 years in a Vatican museum.

The Vatican has returned 62 indigenous artefacts to Canada, 100 years after they were taken from tribes to appear in a missionary museum in Rome.

The items were given by Pope Leo XIV on Saturday to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), which says it plans to return them to their original native communities.

The move comes three years after Pope Francis issued a historic apology to Canada’s First Nations for the church’s role in the “genocide” and suppression of indigenous identity through the residential schools programme.