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Ethically questionable AIA St Louis Maya vessel sells for over 2x estimate

Posted on 13 November 2014

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

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