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Object Type(s): Cradle, Furniture, Mask, Religious artifact
Object Material(s): wood
Provenience Nation: United States Tribal Nations
Provenience Location: Chenega Island
Year Removed from Findspot: 1882 (approximate)

Provenance
Start Year: 2017
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Returned to the indigenous people in the Chugach region via the Chugach Alaska Corporation
Nation: United States Tribal Nations
Location: Chugach Alaska Corporation
Start Year: 1882 (approximate)
End Year: 2017
Circumstance of Acquisition: Allegedly collected via grave robbery by Norwegian adventurer Johan Adrian Jacobsen
Nation: Germany
Location: Berlin's Ethnological Museum

9 Alaskan Grave Objects


Description:
The returned objects included two broken masks, a child's cradle, and a wooden idol.

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 2015
Year Claim Resolved: 2017
Means of Resolution: Action by Complainant's Govt.

Complainant Name: Chugach Alaska Corporation
Complainant Nation: United States Tribal Nations
Complainant Nation Economy: Developed
Complainant Type: Private: Institution

Respondent Name: Berlin's Ethnological Museum
Respondent Nation: Germany
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Public: Government

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Editor's Notes:
Edited by Keli Fisher Image is not of the artifacts; it illustrates a similar artifact to one that was returned. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11/us/native-american-artifacts-returned-trnd "Once the objects arrive in the US, the corporation will work with local Native American villages to decide what to do with them. He believes villages will develop cultural centers to display them – and other objects they hope to get back from other areas of the world soon. "