NMAI Announces Policy on Materials

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Summary

The National Museum of the American Indian announces a new policy on repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural materials of known individuals or those who can be identified by tribe; funerary objects; communally owned Native property; ceremonial and religious objects; and objects acquired illegally.

Subject

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7098, "Robert McC. Adams Chronology."

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

March 5, 1991

Topic

  • Policies
  • Historians
  • Repatriation
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Indians of North America

Place

North America

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