Court Orders Inventory of MAI

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Summary

The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation is ordered by the New York State Supreme Court, in an interim agreement, to conduct an inventory of the museums collection in order to determine what and how many artifacts are missing. The agreement also removes all powers of administraion from the museum's director, Dr. Frederick J. Dockstader. This comes after a year long investigation into the museums deaccessioning and management practices.

Subject

  • Dockstader, Frederick J
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Glueck, Grace, "Court Orders and Inventory of Indian Museum Objects," The New York Times, 6 September 1975, p. 11.

Contact information

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

Date

September 1975

Topic

  • Historians
  • Museums
  • Indians of North America--Museums

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