Repatriation

“2. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (March7,2003). In 1927 the Oakland Public Museum (now the Oakland Museum of California) received a donation of two nineteenth-century wooden human carvings, seventeen- and eighteen-inch-tall “shamans' power figures.” Tribal representatives stated these objects are required by contemporary Quinaults for the observance of their traditional religion. Having met NAGPRA's requirement for status as “sacred objects,” the carvings were due to be repatriated to the Quinault Tribe of Quinault Reservation, Washington"(American Indian Art, Vol. 29(3):102, Summer 2004).


“8. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, MA (March 14, 2003). In 1912 the museum received eighteen shell beads removed from a burial at Florida's Shield's Mound Complex site, occupied between 500 B.C. And A.D. 1562. The Museum classified the beads as 'unassociated funerary objects” under NAGPRA, and announced its intention of transferring them to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida" (American Indian Art, Vol. 29(3):103, Summer 2004).


“10. Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item: Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO (April 8, 2003). In 1975 the museum received a donation: a buckskin Apache gaan mask, a “sacred object” as defined by NAGPRA which the museum agreed to convey to the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mesalero Reservation, New Mexico"(American Indian Art, Vol. 29(3):104, Summer 2004).

Each of these repatriations are from the same issue of American Indian Art, I thought the magazine itself was interesting and had a lot of useful information in them. I may use it to look up information on my basket and more likely my other items.