Yep. Someone bought those ethically questionable Mesoamerican pieces sold at Bonhams.
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Archaeological Institute of America St. Louis Society selling Meosamerican antiquities at auction
Posted on 27 October 2014
Does the sale of ‘clean’ antiquities encourage the black market? Ethical questions.
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Ransoms and Repatriations: the Maori Motunui panels
Posted on 5 July 2014
Hidden in 1800s by Māori fleeing war, 5 carved panels were smuggled
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The Power of Plausible Provenance
Posted on 28 April 2014
Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology
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“Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns
Posted on 3 April 2014
Bonham’s offers a stela owned by an Anonymous Swiss Collector, withdraws piece due to looting allegations.
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The realities of auction catalogue analysis
Posted on 17 February 2014
Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.
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Conclusions: South American antiquities auctions and my academic past
Posted on 6 September 2013
My masters conclusion
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So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend
Posted on 25 March 2013
Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.
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The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2
Posted on 4 March 2013
In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.
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The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.
Posted on 3 March 2013
Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects
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Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts
Posted on 3 March 2013
I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it
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Other antiquities on the Cleveland Museum website!
Posted on 17 August 2012
Lately the interwebs have been abuzz with news of the Cleveland Museum acquiring a Roman portrait head and a Maya pot