Inca inventory review underway
Director of Peru’s National Institute of Culture visits Yale, suggesting that final deal may be on horizon
Peruvian officials traveled to Yale this weekend for the second time in a year, suggesting that an end to the almost 100-year-old dispute over the ownership of Inca artifacts could be imminent, officials on both sides said.
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By Una peruana (Unregistered User)
11:52pm on April 13, 2008
Excuse me? Why on earth Peru is going to pay for all these decades of Yale stealing and keeping our artifacts? Whoever wrote the ignorant comment above hasn't obviously visited my country and the many museums holding the hundred thousands of our priceless patrimony. Does Yale want to create history for themselves by stealing other people's past? No wonder why the rest of the world hates America, I wonder if that colonial mentality will ever change...
Let Peru pay for the inventory and 100 years of protection for priceless artifacts. These items would long have been in a private collection if not placed in the Peabody. Peru's own government is involved in antiquities dealing. Take pictures now for in several years these items will no longer exist. How soon with these "cultural property" disputes popping up will it be before the Peabody is an empty shell?