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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 9815833, member: 55&quot;]I have a partial answer, or two answers. If you are asking about whether the law has ever been applied to a case where a genuine native item was represented as being by a different tribe: like a Navajo item represented as Hopi, I don&#039;t know that answer.</p><p>But as far as whether the law has ever been applied to a non-native or fake item represented as a genuine native item: yes many times.</p><p>I&#039;d have to check my archives for exact dates - but three examples:</p><p>1) Thousands of bone and ivory carvings were confiscated from a dealer, who was prosecuted; he had an ongoing business where he obtained genuine marine ivory illegally, shipped it to Indonesia and had it carved into fake native items, then shipped them back to Alaska to be sold as genuine. Also confiscated were thousands of bone carvings, which were not otherwise illegal; and those were auctioned off...you&#039;ll still see those bone carvings being sold on ebay today - often misrepresented as native.</p><p>2) The Ivory Jack prosecution: Ivory Jack&#039;s had conspired to have fake native items carved, then attached fake hang tags identifying them as the work of non-existent native carvers.</p><p>3) The FBI prosecutions - I forget the year - but I had a contact at that time with the Indian Arts and Crafts board - and after some lengthy investigations, they, via the FBI, filed charges against hundreds of people who had knowingly misrepresented fakes when selling them as genuine Native items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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