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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 7647742, member: 8267&quot;]Welcome to this forum, [USER=79999]@Teddy[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Items such as this basketry cap left their original owners in a variety of ways - some ways more unfortunate than others. It is often impossible to trace their history. Many have entered museum collections, and since the 1990 passage of NAGPRA (the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act), museums have been required to identify objects of ceremonial significance and, under particular conditions, return them to tribes that can properly claim them. This has been an effort to redress some of the dispossession that occurred in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other objects have entered the private market, and may end up in the hands of people who recognize and appreciate their beauty, but may not know their origin or understand their significance. That seems to be the case here.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of us can turn back the clock. The best we can do is try to learn from each other. Presenting a Native point of view here is very important. If done with care, you might inspire some private acts of repatriation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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