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Sad comments by Cleveland Museum curator: A looted Wari pouch ‘symbolizes the entire exhibition’

Posted on 6 November 2012

Remember that unprovenienced and underprovenanced Wari hide pouch

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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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“I am the old looter and I’ve come to loot pottery”

Posted on 4 July 2012

Last night I was working on a short definition of the term “huaquero”.

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Julio C. Tello, bringing context to Peru

Posted on 6 June 2012

As a component of getting back into the swing of things here in Glasgow, I have been revisiting old (and not so old) cases of Latin American looting

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Peruvian MOU hearing: submitted to an email list

Posted on 15 December 2011

I would like to thank everyone who voiced their support for the continuation of import restrictions on antiquities from Bolivia

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Gold monkey head finally going back to Perú

Posted on 13 December 2011

The New Mexico History Museum has just announced that is is returning a particularly dubious (and well known) artifact to Perú.

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