Just as the law now requires that Native American remains and artifacts should be returned to today’s Native tribes, the descendants of a pair of slaves seen in historic daguerreotypes now owned by a Harvard museum claim that they’re the rightful owners of those slaves’ images, which are, says their lawsuit, “spoils of theft.” – […]
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has confirmed what many scholars have long suspected: Five artifacts it had been displaying
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As European museums face increased pressure to return African art — much of it taken during the so-called “Scramble for Africa” —
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(United States of America; Germany)
KHON, 26th Oct 2017.
"The remains were stolen between 1896 and 1902 and sold directly to the Museum of Ethnology in Dresden."
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The museum and Britain were shielded by sovereign immunity and that the grandchildren had waited too long to bring the case.
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Judge says that neither Christie’s nor the bidder presented anything that showed that their privacy could not be maintained via a protective order.
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