Please elaborate. Are you suggesting that NAGPRA is flawed?
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Subject: Re: aboriginal artefacts
Author: "Dill; Christopher L." <[log in to unmask]> at IMA
Date: 1/20/99 9:15 AM
"...returned to their rightful owners..."
So, if you give or sell me your car, who IS the
rightful owner? The first question you have to answer
is just that. Perhaps the museum IS the rightful owner
under local law. Museums, as stewards of their
collections have a responsibility to consider the law
as well as "moral" and/or "ethical" propositions.
Chris Dill
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