More Than A Century After It Was Taken By A Museum, An Indigenous Shrine Returns Home

Franz Boas “decided to acquire [the shrine] for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was a curator. He was driven by a concept known as ‘salvage anthropology,’ in which researchers saw collecting Native cultural possessions as a way to safeguard them.” – The New York Times

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