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International Law

Abstract

The fate of the material culture of indigenous peoples evokes two different scenarios. Western museums and art galleries contain vast troves of indigenous ethnographic and other material, mostly collected abroad in colonial times. In many countries, including the United States, indigenous populations can only access the material evidence of their cultural past by visiting such institutions. In both of these situations, indigenous representatives have sought greater access to these collections and, sometimes, claimed possession of objects they contain. These phenomena will be examined here in a comparative manner with the object of evaluating differing approaches.

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