aljazeeraamerica:US foundation buys Hopi masks for $530k, returns them to tribesThe Los Angeles-base
aljazeeraamerica:US foundation buys Hopi masks for $530k, returns them to tribesThe Los Angeles-based Annenberg Foundation has revealed it purchased a set of 24 Hopi and Apache masks at a controversial Paris auction and will return them to tribes in northeastern Arizona who had tried get the sale blocked.After an unsuccessful law suit filed by lawyers for advocacy group Survival International, who argued the masks were the cultural property of the Hopi and San Carlos Apache tribes, the Annenberg Foundation swooped up twenty-four of the masks “for the sole purpose of returning them to their rightful owners,” it said on Wednesday.The philanthropic organization paid $530,000 when the items went under the hammer on Monday.Read morePhoto: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty -- source link
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