NPR: American Tribe Fights To Halt Artifact Auction In Paris

Someone in this story (I heard it when it was originally broadcast early in the week) said something about the acquisition of these "pre-dating NAGPRA" - but that isn't the case. It doesn't matter if it was collected before 1990.

They should go back. But being as they are in France and possession is 9/10ths of the law, I suspect they won't be sent back. Tribes have worked to raise money to buy back artifacts when they go up for sale, but with the news the price probably is going up as we speak.

That said, as I read this Fort Worth Kimbell Museum story I wondered at the provenience. "The sculptures entered the United States in 1968 and were in private collections in Europe and the U.S. until they were sold to the Kimbell in a private sale." How they entered, that is the question.

SRS