Year of Object(s) Creation: 1050 C.E. (approximate)
Estimated Value ($USD):
Object Type(s): Building, Carving, Sculpture, Strut
Object Material(s): stone, wood
Provenience Nation: Nepal
Provenience Location: Itum Baha and Kankeswari Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal
Year Removed from Findspot: 1990 (approximate)

Provenance
Start Year: 2022
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Turned over by the Metropolitan Museum to Nepal Govt.
Nation: Nepal
Location: National Museum of Nepal, Kathmandu
Start Year: 1991 (approximate)
End Year: 2021
Circumstance of Acquisition: unknown
Nation: United States
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, NY)

Nepalese Sculpture Of Shiva And A Carved Strut


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Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 2021
Year Claim Resolved: 2022
Means of Resolution: Sua sponte donation

Complainant Name: Government of Nepal
Complainant Nation: Nepal
Complainant Nation Economy: Developing
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Institution

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Editor's Notes:
"Shiva in Himalayan Abode with Ascetics" (10 c.) and a strut with a carving of a salabhinka (13 c.). Per Nepali reporting, the objects were ultimately intended to go back to — and by some accounts have been reinstalled at — their original sites: the Kankeswari shrine and Itum Baha monastery in Kathmandu.