Peabody Museum Prepares to Return Sacred Native Cultural Treasures
Published Date: 4/11/2025
Notice
Summary
Harvard’s Peabody Museum is getting ready to return special cultural items to Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. These items include sacred objects and things connected to their heritage. This important step follows a law that helps honor and respect Native cultures, with no costs or delays expected.
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Repatriation of Native Cultural Items
Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Harvard’s Peabody Museum intends to return certain items that are unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations named in this notice. The notice says this repatriation is being done in accordance with NAGPRA and that no costs or delays are expected.
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