Harvard Museum Completes Review of Native Artifacts Inventory
Published Date: 4/2/2025
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Summary
The Peabody Museum at Harvard has finished checking its collection and found that some items belong to Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. This means these groups can now ask for their cultural objects back. If you’re part of these communities, keep an eye out for how and when to claim these important items.
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Tribes Can Request Repatriation Now
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and determined a cultural affiliation. If you are a member of an Indian Tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization named in this notice, you can now request the return (repatriation) of those cultural objects.
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